Spotify

Principal Product Manager, Agentic Surfaces

Spotify$182K — $260K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in product management, focusing on AI and consumer roles
  • Proven experience launching and scaling agentic products
  • Experience managing consumer products with extensive user bases
  • Ability to balance investment in emerging and maturing technologies
  • Strong product vision and roadmap development skills
  • Exceptional product taste and user experience instincts
  • Deep knowledge in AI, personalization, and machine learning applications

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic product surfaces
  • Define how Home's personalization evolves with new technologies
  • Lead development and launch of proactive, intent-aware agentic experiences
  • Translate AI capabilities into intuitive user experiences
  • Exercise clear judgment on product development priorities
  • Set high standards for user experience quality and craft
  • Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks for agentic experiences

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Six months paid parental leave
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Monthly meal allowance
  • 23 paid days off
  • 13 paid flexible holidays
  • Paid sick leave
Full Job Description
This is a defining role for the next era of Spotify's consumer product. As Principal Product Manager for Agentic Surfaces, you'll own the agentic future of Home - our most valuable surface - with a mandate that extends to other surfaces as the strategy matures.

A central part of this role is shaping how Spotify's personalization stack evolves in an AI-native age. You'll make clear-eyed strategic calls about where our established recommendation stack continues to play a durable role, and where we deprecate it in favor of new technologies (agents and the Large Personalization Model) balancing ambition against reliability for a surface hundreds of millions of people depend on every day.

You'll help define what product management means in an AI-native age, where the work shifts from designing screens to orchestrating agents. You'll set the standard for how Spotify builds agentic products and bring the rest of the studio along with you.

This role demands rare range: the product taste to sweat the craft of an experience hundreds of millions of people touch daily, the technical depth to partner with ML engineers and researchers on what's actually possible, and the organizational gravity to align senior leadership across a large, distributed org around a bold vision.

What You'll Do

  • Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the agentic future of Home, with flexibility to extend across Now Playing, Browse, and other surfaces as the strategy matures
  • Set the strategy for how Home's personalization evolves - determining where the established recommendation stack remains durable and where we deprecate it in favor of agents and the Large Personalization Model
  • Lead the ideation, development, and launch of agentic experiences that move from reactive recommendations to proactive, intent-aware action
  • Translate frontier model and agent capabilities into intuitive experiences a broad global audience understands and loves
  • Exercise clear, traceable judgment: be explicit about what to build and what to say no to, and sunset work that no longer serves the strategy
  • Set a high bar for quality and craft - the everyday interactions millions experience are the product - and hold the line between "looks great" and "is great"
  • Establish the evaluation bar for agentic experiences: rigorous eval frameworks, instrumentation, and honest assessment across diverse user segments, since what delights one listener can miss millions of others
  • Use prototypes and real results to learn - favor showing a working prototype over writing a long doc - and defer commitment until understanding is strong
  • Use a mix of quantitative data, experimentation, and user research to understand behavior and make prioritization calls in genuinely ambiguous territory
  • Partner deeply with engineering, ML, design, research, and data science to ship high-impact improvements at a fast cadence
  • Influence senior stakeholders across Spotify, building alignment around a vision that spans multiple teams and surfaces
  • Balance rapid iteration with our commitment to user trust, safety, and brand integrity at scale


Who You Are

  • 10+ years of product management experience, with a majority in AI, consumer-focused roles
  • Proven track record shipping and scaling agentic products in production at scale - real agents that take autonomous action for users, not prototypes, demos, or scripted chatbots
  • Experience owning consumer products with tens or hundreds of millions of users
  • Demonstrated ability to balance investment across maturing and emerging technologies - knowing when to bet on the new and when to lean on the proven
  • Demonstrated ability to set product vision and roadmap and bring executive and developer-leadership audiences along
  • Exceptional product taste and instinct for what makes an experience delightful
  • Decisiveness under incomplete information: you triangulate the best evidence available, make the call, and own the consequences - "the AI recommended it" is never an excuse
  • Highly analytical; fluent in experimentation and using data to drive decisions
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management across large, distributed, cross-functional orgs
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where the playbook is still being written
  • Deep, current expertise in how AI and agents are transforming consumer software, with a track record of building and launching agentic capabilities at scale in production
  • Experience with recommender systems, personalization, or large-scale ML-driven products - and the judgment to decide where an established stack stays durable versus where to move onto a new paradigm
  • Technical background or proven ability to partner closely with ML engineers and researchers on what's feasible - comfortable pulling your own data, exploring a codebase, or spinning up a prototype to unblock yourself
  • Experience building evaluation frameworks for AI-driven or personalized products at scale
  • Experience influencing across broad organizations and helping teams adopt new ways of working
  • You have either founder or startup experience
  • Passion for audio, discovery, and redefining how the world finds what it loves next


Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location
  • This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration


The United States base range for this position is $182,308 - $260,441 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, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

About Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, launched in October 2008. The platform is owned by Spotify AB, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange since April 2018. Spotify's primary business is providing an audio streaming platform, with the company claiming that it had 345 million active monthly users and 155 million paying subscribers as of December 2020. Unlike physical or download sales, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the number of artist streams as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service. Spotify distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders, who then pay artists based on their individual agreements. Spotify has faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians. Spotify has also faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians.
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