Principal Product Manager - Content Platform
- Level
- Principal
- Work type
- Hybrid · London
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 11 August 2026.
About the role
Content Platform is the foundation of Spotify’s experiences. We ensure our vast catalog of music, podcasts, audiobooks, video, and creator data is trusted, safe, and ready to power innovation across Spotify.
Our work spans content governance, platform safety, metadata, and machine learning systems that enable experiences such as Music Quiz, Playlist Mixes, Save to Spotify and SongDNA. Every day, our platform helps teams across Spotify build better products for millions of listeners and creators.
As a Principal Product Managers you will own strategy directly. In this role, you’ll shape long-term direction, partner closely with engineering, machine learning, design, and business leaders, and deliver platform capabilities that have company-wide impact.
What You'll Do
- Define and evolve product strategy for your domain using customer insights, data, and long-term platform thinking.
- Lead complex product initiatives from early discovery through delivery in partnership with engineering, machine learning, data science, and design teams.
- Partner with machine learning engineers to shape model strategy, training data, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop systems.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Spotify to align priorities, influence roadmaps, and drive platform investments that create lasting value.
- Make thoughtful product decisions by balancing customer needs, technical complexity, business priorities, and long-term platform health.
- Champion platform safety, trust, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence as Spotify’s content ecosystem continues to grow.
- Help teams prioritize work that delivers the greatest long-term impact while maintaining focus on strategic outcomes.
- Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress clearly across technical and executive audiences.
Who You Are
- You thrive in highly autonomous environments and enjoy turning ambiguity into clear product direction.
- You have extensive experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives in complex environments, delivering measurable customer or business impact.
- You make thoughtful product decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning, trade-offs, and outcomes behind them.
- You think in systems and enjoy solving complex platform challenges that span multiple teams and technologies.
- You have experience building long-term product strategies where every investment strengthens future platform capabilities.
- You communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders, building alignment across diverse stakeholders.
- You have experience working alongside machine learning teams and understand concepts such as model evaluation, precision and recall, and responsible AI development.
- You build trusted partnerships, collaborate with empathy, and create an environment where teams can do their best work.
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.
Spotify's standard text
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.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
What this role asks for
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Compared with Spotify's other open jobs.
The team: Experience HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Experience. 6 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (5 of 15), Android (3 of 15), iOS (3 of 15), Java (2 of 15), PyTorch (2 of 15), Scala (2 of 15), TensorFlow (2 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Product Manager - Spotify Connect posted Oct 23
- Principal Product Manager - TV & Desktop posted Oct 23
- Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform posted Oct 21
- Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Content Platform posted Oct 6
- Principal Product Manager - Format Foundations posted Oct 5
- Principal Product Manager - Core Experience Platform posted Oct 5
- Senior Backend Data Engineer – Content Intelligence posted Sep 22
- Principal Product Manager - Audio and Media Playback posted Sep 16
- Staff Engineer - Content Platform posted Sep 16
- Director of Engineering - Content Platform (Catalog) posted Sep 9
- Senior Product Manager - Audiobooks Format Foundations posted Sep 4
- Senior Staff Engineer - Platform & Partner Experience posted Aug 10
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Platform posted Apr 29
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Platform posted Apr 28
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