About the Role
We are seeking a strategic Senior Product Manager to lead and evolve design systems, accessibility, and AI-powered tooling at Spotify. This role involves owning the vision and execution for foundational systems that enable designers and engineers to build world-class, inclusive experiences efficiently, with AI integrated into the workflow. It requires operating with high autonomy in ambiguous spaces, setting direction for complex initiatives, making prioritization calls, and applying analytical rigor to measure system adoption, design quality, and AI workflow impact. Proficiency in using AI tools for analysis, synthesis, prototyping, and decision support is expected.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term product strategy and roadmap for Encore, including design tokens, component libraries, accessibility standards, and AI-powered capabilities.
- Partner closely with engineering, design, accessibility, and platform teams to evolve systems that enable product teams to deliver high-quality user experiences consistently and efficiently.
- Lead prioritization across multiple initiatives, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform investments while clearly communicating trade-offs and rationale to stakeholders.
- Champion the use of AI throughout the product development lifecycle, leveraging AI-powered tools to synthesize research, explore solutions, draft product artifacts, accelerate decision-making, and improve team productivity.
- Shape Spotify's strategy for AI-enabled design tooling, identifying opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve design workflows, component quality, documentation, and adoption across both human and AI consumers.
- Establish meaningful success metrics for platform adoption, design quality, accessibility, and developer experience, using both quantitative and qualitative insights to guide investment decisions.
- Translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans that keep cross-functional teams aligned, focused, and delivering against shared outcomes.
- Build trusted partnerships across Spotify, helping teams successfully adopt Encore while continuously improving the platform based on user feedback and evolving business needs.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and accountability across the teams contributing to Spotify's design infrastructure.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in Product Management, with significant experience building platform, infrastructure, developer platform, or design systems products.
- Successfully defined product strategy for complex, cross-functional initiatives involving platform adoption, migrations, or large-scale technical investments.
- Uses AI tools as a natural part of their product management practice, applying them to research, analysis, documentation, synthesis, prototyping, and decision support while exercising thoughtful human judgment.
- Strong analytical skills and experience defining product metrics, interpreting data, and using evidence to inform product strategy and prioritization.
- Understands the principles behind design systems, accessibility, design tokens, semantic components, and modern design tooling, or is excited to deepen expertise in these areas.
- Communicates complex ideas with clarity, adapting approach to engineers, designers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
- Knows how to influence without authority, bringing alignment across multiple teams with differing priorities.
- Cares deeply about building products that enable others to do their best work, raising the quality, consistency, and accessibility of experiences across Spotify.
- Thrives in ambiguous environments, bringing curiosity, sound judgment, and a bias toward thoughtful execution.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Development
- Design Systems
- Accessibility Standards
- AI-Powered Tooling
- Platform Engineering
- Prioritization
- Stakeholder Communication
- AI Tool Proficiency
- Data Analysis
- Product Metrics
- Design Tokens
- Component Libraries
- Influence Without Authority
- Cross-functional Collaboration
Location
- Stockholm
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Spotify is a global technology company that provides audio streaming services.
