Director of Product - Personalization

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Design, Effective communication skills, KPIs, Large Language Models - LLMs, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Product Management, Software Development

Job Description

Spotify is building the world’s most personalized audio service and AI is at the heart of our work. We’re looking for a Director of AI Product to lead multiple product areas. These deeply technical products and product areas help power AI DJ, AI Playlists, our Home Page, our Promotions and our Search experience. Through these AI products, Spotify guides each user’s listening journey, constantly trying to match each user to compelling audio content for them. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team of product managers, stakeholders and partners to define and shape product strategy. You’ll work closely with Spotify leadership as you envision, evangelize and fund novel AI products and capabilities. You’ll inspire teams of engineers to execute and deliver these products to bolster Spotify’s best-in-class recommendation offering, and in the process, make a substantial impact on the happiness of our 600m+ users as well as the success of our business and our creators. This is a strategically important role for Spotify and the opportunity for impact is high. You’ll collaborate with a cross-disciplinary set of colleagues across the globe, working in a fast-paced environment, and hopefully have a lot of fun along the way!

What You'll Do

• Conceive, evangelize and fund novel Spotify AI products and AI capabilities with leadership and continue to power surfaces, playlists and platform partner product areas with best-in-class AI technology.
• Work in a collaborative and supportive teams where creativity, partnership, and communication are balanced with deep technical expertise.
• Build, grow and lead a team of product managers to define and execute your long term vision.
• Build a roadmap and execution strategies with the team by balancing user needs, strategic business needs, stakeholder needs and technological opportunities.
• Define metrics and KPIs we will use to measure the success of the features your team builds.
• Build relationships and partnerships with teams across the company, align on strategy, vision, execution and enablement.
• Ensuring your teams are strong and healthy - including capabilities, happiness, resilience and growth.
• You will work from our US offices with the ability to work from home flexibly.

Who You Are

• You have 8+ years experience managing and developing well-loved software products as a product manager. You’ve had multiple experiences defining product roadmaps, convincing leadership to invest, building collaboratively with design and engineering, and shipping at scale.
• You have product experience using generative AI, machine learning, large language models and diffusion, ideally with demonstrated business impact.
• You have delivered projects that have shown proven impact for your business.
• You have good instincts as well as deep analytical thinking to focus on the things that matter most. You are experienced in making hard data-informed decisions.
• You are excited about building products in a rapidly changing landscape and inspiring others around you to do the same.
• You are able to distill complex information into easy-to-understand concepts, and understand how to lead a team through ambiguity.
• You consider the user in everything you do and love partnering with design, insights and engineering to turn a vision into reality.
• You are an excellent communicator, comfortable working with multiple stakeholders.

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 Eastern US region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern US time zones 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 $210,000 - $300,000, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(K) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.

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.