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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.\nSpotify Search handles billions of queries across every market, language, and content type - music, podcasts, audiobooks, videos, playlists, and more. We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the Search Personalization within our Conversation Product Area, setting the product strategy for how hundreds of millions of users find and discover content on Spotify. This is a leadership role at the intersection of search systems, AI, and user experience. You’ll own the end-to-end strategy for search results - from ranking and relevance to AI-powered features like semantic search, LLM reranking, and AI Overviews - while leading two key Search squads (results ranking and query suggestions). Search is the front door to Spotify; this role shapes what people find when they walk through it.\nWhat You'll Do\nSet the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization at Spotify - spanning ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust.\nDrive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences - AI Overviews, semantic search, LLM reranking - balancing innovation velocity with quality and cost discipline.\nOwn the Search quality bar: define how relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience connect into a holistic quality framework with measurable outcomes.\nManage Search’s role as a shared surface across many company strategies - build prioritization frameworks, communicate trade-offs, and represent Search at executive forums.\nInfluence and coach junior PMs working in Search.\nPartner with engineering leadership to make architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health.\nDrive cross-functional alignment where Search intersects.\nWho You Are\nYou have 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years leading search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users).\nYou have a deep technical understanding of search systems - ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methodology, and the trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness.\nYou have experience with AI/ML-powered search features - semantic search, LLM-based reranking, recommendations, or similar - and can lead a team through the transition from traditional to AI-native search.\nYou have a track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources, and can build frameworks for principled prioritization.\nYou think strategically at the portfolio level - you can synthesize across many concurrent initiatives, set a coherent vision, and communicate it clearly to executives.\nYou communicate with clarity and conviction, with the ability to translate technical complexity into compelling narratives for leadership, bet owners, and cross-functional partners.\nYou have experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and can influence without authority or direct reporting lines.\nYou bring familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and understand the unique dynamics of content-rich platforms.\nYou have experience operating Search as a platform that serves multiple internal teams or content verticals.\nYou have worked in content integrity, trust & safety, or regulatory compliance in the context of search or discovery systems.\nWhere You'll Be\nThis role is based in London or Stockholm.\nWe offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! 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