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SpotifyPrincipal Product Manager - Personalization
Spotify wants a senior product leader to run Search Personalization inside the Conversation Product Area. Search helps people locate content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, video and…
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Spotify wants a senior product leader to run Search Personalization inside the Conversation Product Area. Search helps people locate content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, video and playlists, and this post decides how results get ranked and presented to hundreds of millions of users. The person in this role is accountable for the overall plan behind search results, covering ranking, relevance and retrieval. They lead two search squads, one focused on…
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Spotify wants a senior product leader to run Search Personalization inside the Conversation Product Area. Search helps people locate content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, video and playlists, and this post decides how results get ranked and presented to hundreds of millions of users.
The person in this role is accountable for the overall plan behind search results, covering ranking, relevance and retrieval. They lead two search squads, one focused on results ranking and one on query suggestions. The agenda includes bringing AI-native features into search, such as AI Overviews, semantic retrieval and reranking with large language models, while keeping quality and spend under control. The post also builds a quality framework that ties together relevance, trust, regulatory compliance and the wider user experience, and sets priorities among the many company initiatives that rely on search.
This is a leadership role for someone who understands search systems in depth, including ranking designs, evaluation methods and the balancing of relevance against latency, cost and freshness. Experience with machine learning features in search or recommendations is expected, along with comfort presenting to executives and the ability to mentor junior product managers and move others without formal authority. The job works with engineering leadership on architecture choices and with partners wherever search overlaps other areas.
The job location is London or Stockholm, with some in-person meetings and flexibility to work from home. No salary or benefits are listed in the posting.
Responsibilities
- Chart a plan across several product cycles for search personalization, covering ranking and relevance, retrieval, AI-driven features, quality and trust.
- Lead the move toward AI-native search, including AI Overviews, semantic search and LLM reranking, weighing speed against quality and cost.
- Set the quality standard for search, tying together relevance, trust, regulatory compliance and the overall experience with measurable outcomes.
- Create prioritization methods for search as a shared surface, explain trade-offs and speak for search in executive settings.
- Manage the two search squads covering results ranking and query suggestions.
- Coach junior product managers working on search.
- Work with engineering leaders on architecture choices that balance near-term delivery against long-term infrastructure health.
- Coordinate cross-functional alignment wherever search touches other teams.
Requirements
- Eight-plus years in product management, with a minimum of three years running search-related products (discovery, information retrieval) that serve 100 million or more users.
- Strong technical grasp of search systems: ranking designs, retrieval approaches, evaluation practice and the balance among relevance, speed, spend and freshness.
- Experience with AI or machine learning features in search or recommendations, and the ability to guide a team through the shift to AI-native search.
- Record of handling complicated stakeholder environments with competing priorities and scarce resources.
- Portfolio-level thinking, able to pull many initiatives into one vision and explain it to executives.
- Mentoring early-career PMs and driving outcomes without direct reporting lines.
Qualifications
- Some familiarity with audio products or media tech.
- Experience running search as a shared platform for several internal teams or content verticals.
- Background in content integrity, trust and safety, or compliance work tied to search or discovery.
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Where is this role based?
The posting says London or Stockholm, with some in-person meetings and flexibility to work from home.
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At least eight years of product management, with three years leading search products that reach 100 million+ users.
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The listing is for a full-time position.
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