Director of Product - PZNK - Personalization

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’re looking to add a passionate product leader to our organization that powers personalization through its understanding of listeners and the content they love. Just about any time anyone uses Spotify, their experience is more enjoyable and inspiring because of this understanding that applies powerful AI while staying end-user-focused. In this role, you’ll lead a versatile team of product managers to define and craft our strategy. You’ll encourage cross-functional teams to execute and in the process have a substantial impact on the happiness of our users and success of our business. This is a strategically important role for Spotify and the opportunity for impact is high. You’ll work with a cross-disciplinary set of folks across the globe, working in a fast-paced environment, and hopefully have a lot of fun along the way!

What You'll Do

• Drive the vision for Spotify’s understanding of listeners and the content they love across music, podcasts, audiobooks and more.
• Build, grow and manage a team of dedicated product leads to define and implement your long term vision.
• Work alongside your engineering counterpart to create a roadmap and execution strategies by understanding needs across our wider Personalization organization, using data insights and working closely with stakeholders.
• Partner with your insights counterpart to 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 to align on strategy, vision, execution and enablement. 

Who You Are

• You have proven experience managing and developing well-loved software products as a product manager. You’ve had many experiences defining product roadmaps, building collaboratively with insights and engineering peers, and shipping at scale.
• You have had particular success in delivering platform products whose users are developers.
• You have given leadership to products that incorporate machine learning, experience with recommendation products is nice-to-have.
• You have delivered projects that have shown proven impact for your business.
• You have deep analytical thinking to focus on the things that matter most, especially with expertise in large amounts of data. You are experienced in making hard data-informed decisions.
• You are excited about building products in a rapidly changing landscape.
• You are able to distill sophisticated 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 mind-melding 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.
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