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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

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The suggested salary for this position is $156,000-$204,500*

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No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Principal Product Manager - job at Spotify

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. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them. We ask that our team members be physically located in Central European time or Eastern Standard/Daylight time zones for the purposes of our collaboration hours.

The Speak team creates the world’s most human-realistic text-to-speech software - we create voice models that match human-level emotional ability. We began through the acquisition of Sonantic in 2022 and we now provide the voice to Spotify’s AI DJ in 2023. Our mission is to give Spotify users personalized speech every day, in a scalable way through AI voice. Our groundbreaking work on speech synthesis relies on innovative deep learning methods and evaluation techniques, highly efficient data processing and model serving, and capturing outstanding quality audio from our voice actors.

Spotify is building the world’s most loved personalized audio service. With great power comes great responsibility, and we take that responsibility seriously. You will work cross-functionally with highly skilled engineers, technologists, researchers, data scientists, voice data and product managers, designers, strategic leads, and policy and legal constituents to drive the development of products that enable Spotify to understand and mitigate any potentially harmful effects of algorithmic choices on listener and creator communities. You will collaborate with internal and external partners to translate complex questions and requirements into concrete technical solutions. In this role, you will get stuck right in and partner with the Product Director and team in London, other parts of Europe, New York, and collaborate daily with the Boston team. We just launched the AI DJ in the US and Canada markets and this is the first of many immersive speech experiences that the Speak team will support.

We’re seeking an engaging and highly strategic Senior Principal Product Manager or Principal Product Manager to drive personalized AI voice across many of Spotify’s most exciting and emerging product lines. These will help guide the user through Spotify’s incredible content catalog and existing recommendation products built by the Personalization team: Daily Mix”, “Radio”, to Artist / Genre / Mood / Decade personalized “Mixes” and more. You’ll be collaborating with top industry experts in building out our scaled text-to-speech infrastructure which will deepen the listening experience of hundreds of millions of users.

You will work with the Speak Product Area Director of Product; developing, articulating, and delivering key product strategies critical to the success of our mission and Spotify’s pursuit of a rich user and listener experience through voice AI products.

What You’ll Do

Work closely with the Speak Director of Product, Senior Product Manager, Speak team, and other senior organizational leaders to develop important strategic product direction and communicate the vision and strategy.
In partnership with Speak’s product management team, engineering team, and production team, formulate the product (and technical) vision and strategy for our technology stack, and build the tech stack which supports our next-generation recommender systems to improve listening experiences for all users.
You will be responsible for product management for two squads and work hand in hand with the engineering managers leading these squads. You will run the delivery and timelines for execution both directly and through others to expand DJ features, experimentation and launch into further markets.
Influence your teams and cross-functional partners towards alignment and execution.
Become a key contributor and organizational point of contact for company bets Speak is involved in, product goals and PZN mission priorities.
Get to know important collaborators at multiple levels of the organization to build rapport and represent Speak’s beliefs around voice AI and strategies in a broader business context.
Become trusted with a high level of autonomy in bringing together strategies and tactics that move us towards our business goals and ambitions of our Product Area
Combine thoughtful experimentation and iteration to find the ideas that resonate with users.
Define metrics and KPIs used to measure the success of the features your team builds.
Engage with important technical concepts at a granular level in order to determine and distill critical opportunities, and inspire teams to question constraints.
Champion Spotify's culture and values to make sure that your team is strong and healthy.

Who You Are

A true self-starter who enjoys the challenge of taking on broad and often nascent problem statements and turning them into something tangible that gives direction and clear decision points.
Demonstrated ability in building and shipping consumer and/or platform technology alongside a team of machine learning engineers, researchers and production data teams.
You have experience running strategies for large, cross-functional projects.
You are excited about building products in a constantly evolving landscape and are good at dealing with ambiguity.
You thrive when developing great people and extraordinary products.
A network builder, identifying key collaborators across the organization regardless of formal role or function.
Empathetic, understanding the sometimes unspoken needs and goals of individuals and teams, and building relationships based on mutual trust.
A strong communicator, able to articulate complex ideas and concepts succinctly in both written and verbal forms.
You know how to inspire, empower, and support a team to get things done. You are comfortable driving projects from start to finish, with a predictable cadence and involving multiple partners from diverse subject areas.
You are highly flexible and adaptable and are able to align individuals within a squad and between squads.
You are either an experienced manager or a senior individual contributor with strong communication skills and leadership experience willing to transition into a manager role.
Strong social skills, and sensitivity to the needs of a geographically-distributed team.
A passion for the audio space and cultural equity & Impact.
You have ideally some AI experience, some machine learning experience, or interest in these areas.
You’re a go-getter and have the ability to dive right in.
You think innovatively and are able to articulate a vision.
You have a strong storytelling communication style and are able to influence using this.
You are a solution-focused problem solver.
Your attention to detail is strong and something you take pride in.

Where you’ll be

You will work out Spotify's London office.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.

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