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Principal Product Manager - Format Foundations | Life at Spotify The Way We Play Find Your Team Start Your Journey All Jobs The Way We Play Find Your Team Start Your Journey Latest All Jobs Principal Product Manager Format Foundations Link copied to clipboard. Apply now Apply Product Permanent London or Stockholm We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening and watching feel effortless, personal, and joyful for hundreds of millions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify. We’re seeking a Principal Product Manager to help lead the consumer experience across Spotify’s formats, including books, podcasts, and music. Format Foundations partners with the business teams behind each format to lead innovation in how users discover, engage with, and build lasting relationships with content on Spotify. You’ll set the product vision and strategy for your area and shape feature portfolios across formats. This role sits within Format Foundations in Core Experience, partnering closely with these teams to grow their businesses through product innovation.
What You'll Do Lead product vision and strategy across Spotify’s formats, shaping how books, podcasts, and music become more engaging, lovable, and valuable for users, creators, and the business. Define and evolve the user experience across the content journey—from discovery and evaluation through engagement, library management, and retention. Partner closely with business leaders across books, podcasts, and music to translate business strategy into product innovation that drives growth. Drive innovation across multimodal and cross-format experiences, such as the intersection of listening and reading, and build capabilities that can scale from one format to others. Work closely with engineering, design, data, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality experiences. Use data, experimentation, and user insights to inform decisions and continuously improve the experience. Align senior stakeholders across Core Experience, the business teams, and Personalization to create a cohesive consumer experience. Lead multiple cross-functional initiatives end to end, owning scope and alignment and partnering with engineering on delivery. Mentor product managers and raise the bar for product craft across
the team.
Who You Are You have 10+ years of experience in product management and have led product work across several consumer media products at scale in large technology companies. You have deep knowledge of the consumer media landscape across areas such as books, podcasts, or music, including competitive dynamics, creator and publisher ecosystems, and user behavior. You have experience building for mobile platforms such as iOS and Android, including complex user interfaces. You understand how to build scalable systems and experiences that enable teams to move faster. You’re able to balance user experience, technical constraints, and business impact. You care deeply about creating intuitive, high-quality consumer experiences. You’ve worked closely with engineering, design, and data partners to bring products to life. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity across teams and organizations. You’ve influenced senior leaders and stakeholders across functions and levels to drive alignment and outcomes. You actively use AI tools in your product development workflow, from research and analysis to iteration and prototyping. Where You'll Be This role is based in Stockholm or London We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. Our global
benefits Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse. Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success. Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents. All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub. Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs. Similar jobs Principal Product Manager, Personalization London or Stockholm London or Stockholm Product Permanent Director, Portfolio & Monetization Architecture London, New York or Stockholm London, New York or Stockholm Product Subscriptions Permanent Principal Product Manager, Audio and Media Playback London or Stockholm London or Stockholm Product Permanent See all similar jobs Quick clicks More about Product Product category See our London office London office Find out about Start Your Journey Start Your Journey Sound Good? Get to know our hiring process before you apply or find answers to any lingering questions, right here, right now. Start Your Journey Start Your Journey Read our FAQ Read our FAQ Communities Creators Developers Artists Engineering Research Stay Updated Instagram LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Career The Way We Play Students How We Hire All Jobs Reports Equity and Impact Report 2025 UK Gender Pay Report 2025 © 2026 Spotify AB. Legal Privacy center Privacy policy AI Notice About ads © 2026 Spotify AB. Legal Privacy center Privacy policy AI Notice About ads
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Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.
It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.
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Location
Stockholm, London
Funding
Total raised
$2.1B
Last stage
Public
Investors
Founders
Martin Lorentzon
Co-Founder
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