Senior Product Manager - Personalization - Talk Audio

Key Skills

Data Analysis, Data science techniques, Design, KPIs, Machine learning techniques, Product Management

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to join Spotify’s Personalization, Talk Audio team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for building capabilities that allow us to understand talk audio content to deliver relevant podcast and audiobook recommendations to hundreds of millions of users. This includes models and data products that can represent talk content and users as well as their relationships to ensure a relevant and delightful personalized experience.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the vision for the talk audio personalization. 
• Build a roadmap for the team by understanding our audience and the strategic needs for talk audio recommendations, using data insights and working closely with stakeholders.
• Prioritize new features based on user needs, alignment with the company’s short- and long-term goals, and technical platform scalability.
• Define metrics and KPIs we will use to measure the success of the features your team builds.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of experience in building and shipping ML-driven products at scale together with teams of designers, engineers and data scientists.
• 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 developed intuitions but match that with deep analytical thinking and systems-level thinking to focus on the things that matter most and build long-lasting platform products.
• You are passionate about building products in a rapidly changing landscape and good at sorting out ambiguity
• You know how to inspire, motivate and support a team to get things done.
• Nice to have: Past experience working with audio content product recommendations or language technologies would be a huge plus.

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.

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 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.