The opportunity
The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features.
What you'll do
Set the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization: at Spotify — spanning ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust.
Drive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences: AI Overviews, semantic search, LLM reranking — balancing innovation velocity with quality and cost discipline.
Own the Search quality bar: define how relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience connect into a holistic quality framework with measurable outcomes.
Manage Search’s role as a shared surface across many company strategies: build prioritization frameworks, communicate trade-offs, and represent Search at executive forums.
Influence and coach junior PMs working in Search.
Partner with engineering leadership to make architectural decisions that: balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health.
What they're looking for
- You have 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years leading: search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users).
- You have a deep technical understanding of search systems: ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methodology, and the trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness.
- You have experience with AI/ML-powered search features: semantic search, LLM-based reranking, recommendations, or similar — and can lead a team through the transition from traditional to AI-native search.
- You have a track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with: competing priorities and limited resources, and can build frameworks for principled prioritization.
- You think strategically at the portfolio level: you can synthesize across many concurrent initiatives, set a coherent vision, and communicate it clearly to executives.
- You communicate with clarity and conviction, with the ability to translate: technical complexity into compelling narratives for leadership, bet owners, and cross-functional partners.
- You have experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and can: influence without authority or direct reporting lines.
- You bring familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and understand: the unique dynamics of content-rich platforms.
