Spotify

Director of AI Product - Personalization

Remote New York, NY
USD 222k - 318k
Streaming Machine Learning
Description
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.


Spotify is building the world’s most personalized audio service and AI is at the heart of our work. Unlike many other AI efforts, Spotify is committed to building AI to increase human consumption of human creation. We’re looking for a Direct of AI Product to lead multiple GenAI product areas. These deeply technical products, models and agents are powering our AI DJ, AI Playlists, Home Page, Promotions and Search experience. Through these AI products, Spotify guides each user’s listening journey, constantly trying to match each user to compelling audio content for them. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team of product managers to define and shape our AI product strategy. 

You’ll work closely with Spotify leadership as you envision, evangelize and fund novel AI products and capabilities partnering across many organizations at Spotify and with stakeholders across Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks and beyond. You’ll inspire teams of engineers to execute and deliver these products to bolster Spotify’s best-in-class recommendation offering, and in the process, make a substantial impact on the happiness of our 600m+ users as well as the success of our business and our creators. This is a strategically important role for Spotify and the opportunity for impact is high. You’ll collaborate with a cross-disciplinary set of colleagues across the globe, working in a fast-paced environment, and hopefully have a lot of fun along the way!

What You'll Do

  • Conceive, evangelize and fund novel Spotify AI products and AI capabilities with leadership and continue to power surfaces, playlists and platform partner product areas with best-in-class AI technology.
  • Work in a collaborative and supportive teams where creativity, partnership, and communication are balanced with deep technical expertise.
  • Build, grow and lead a team of product managers to define and execute your long term vision.
  • Build a roadmap and execution strategies with the team by balancing user needs, strategic business needs, stakeholder needs and technological opportunities.
  • 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, align on strategy, vision, execution and enablement. 
  • Ensuring your teams are strong and healthy - including capabilities, happiness, resilience and growth. 
  • You will work from our US offices with the ability to work from Home flexibly.

Who You Are

  • You have 8+ years experience managing and developing well-loved software products as a product manager. You’ve had multiple experiences defining product roadmaps, convincing leadership to invest, building collaboratively with design and engineering, and shipping at scale.
  • You have product experience using generative AI, machine learning, large language models and diffusion, ideally with demonstrated business impact.
  • You have delivered projects that have shown proven impact for your business. 
  • You have good instincts as well as deep analytical thinking to focus on the things that matter most. You are experienced in making hard data-informed decisions. 
  • You are excited about building products in a rapidly changing landscape and inspiring others around you to do the same. 
  • You are able to distill complex 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 partnering 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 offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Northern US region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern US time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $222,615 - $318,021 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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.


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