Senior Product Manager - Personalization

Job Description

Senior Product Manager - Personalization (Talk)

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.

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to join Spotify's Personalization, Talk knowledge team. We build models, tools, and data products for understanding talk content and users in order to generate world-class podcast and audiobook recommendations for hundreds of millions of users. In this role you will work with product and engineering teams across the Personalization mission to shape and implement Spotify's policies and principles around recommendations. Your team will be responsible for building capabilities that allow us to deliver relevant and safe podcast and audiobook recommendation experiences that delight our users.
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Who You Are
• Someone who is familiar working with ambiguity at the intersection of product policy and recommendation quality and ideally has direct experience in the field to lean on
• 5+ years of Product Management experience including building a roadmap, prioritizing work, and empowering consistent delivery outcomes
• You have delivered projects that have shown proven impact for your business
• You are experienced in making hard data-informed decisions (A/B testing and experimentation, data analysis, defining metrics)
• You have worked with senior leaders and managed expectations senior partners from several different disciplines and diverse backgrounds.
• Previous experience in the technology industry working on algorithmic responsibility or trust and safety issues
• Domain knowledge in content recommendations
• Experience running strategy for large, cross-functional projects
• Experience measuring success of efforts that may not be aligned with overarching business metrics (e.g. balancing engagement with responsibility)

What You'll Do
• We are hiring a Sr. Product Manager for a team that focuses on recommendation eligibility for talk audio content so that we can provide safe, entertaining, and relevant recommendations.
• This team will be centered in the Talk Group within Personalization Knowledge vertical
• This person will also partner across business units, working closely with Trust and Safety and Global Affairs, Content Platform, legal, comms and PR.

Where You'll Be
• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours: https://lifeatspotify.com/locations
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

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The United States base range for this position is $134,481 - $192,116, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9nkp9-18-188-158-92-42 in your application.