product manager for search personalization

Spotify’s Personalization team develops features that help listeners decide what to play next, including Blend and Discover Weekly. Spotify Search handles billions of queries across markets, languages, and content types, helping users find and discover content.

• Set the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization, covering ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust
• Drive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences, balancing innovation velocity with quality and cost discipline
• Define a holistic Search quality framework connecting relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience to measurable outcomes
• Build prioritization frameworks, communicate trade-offs, and represent Search at executive forums
• Influence and coach junior PMs working in Search
• Partner with engineering leadership on architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health
• Drive cross-functional alignment where Search intersects

• 8+ Years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users)
• Deep technical understanding of search systems, including ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methodology, and trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness
• Experience with AI/ML-powered search features such as semantic search, LLM-based reranking, or recommendations, and ability to lead a team through the transition to AI-native search
• Track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources, and building principled prioritization frameworks
• Strategic portfolio-level thinking, ability to synthesize concurrent initiatives, set a coherent vision, and communicate it clearly to executives
• Clear and convincing communication, including translating technical complexity into compelling narratives for leadership, bet owners, and cross-functional partners
• Experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and influencing without authority or direct reporting lines
• Familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and the dynamics of content-rich platforms
• Experience operating Search as a platform serving multiple internal teams or content verticals
• Experience in content integrity, trust & safety, or regulatory compliance in search or discovery systems

• Permanent commitment
• Some in-person meetings; flexibility to work from home
• The role is based in London or Stockholm