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Senior Product Manager - Design Systems

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in Product Management
  • Experience building platform, infrastructure, developer platform, or design systems products
  • Strong analytical skills and experience defining product metrics
  • Understanding of design systems, accessibility, design tokens, and modern design tooling

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term product strategy and roadmap for Encore
  • Partner closely with engineering, design, accessibility, and platform teams
  • Lead prioritization across multiple initiatives and communicate trade-offs
  • Champion the use of AI throughout the product development lifecycle

About the company

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Spotify

Streaming Services (SVOD/AVOD)

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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryStreaming Services (SVOD/AVOD)
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

We’re looking for a strategic Senior Product Manager to lead and evolve design systems, accessibility, and AI-powered tooling at Spotify. In this role, you’ll own the vision and execution for the foundational systems that enable Spotify’s designers and engineers to build world-class, inclusive experiences — faster, more consistently, and with AI as a core part of the workflow.

This is a senior IC role that requires you to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous spaces. You’ll set direction for complex, multi-team initiatives, make high-stakes prioritization calls, and bring analytical rigor to how we measure system adoption, design quality, and the impact of AI-assisted workflows. You’ll also be expected to use AI tools fluently in your own work — from analysis and synthesis to prototyping and decision support.

You’ll work at the intersection of design systems, platform engineering, and AI — ensuring our foundational design language (Encore) is usable, extensible, and built for a future where both humans and AI agents consume design infrastructure. You’ll serve as the connective tissue between strategic initiatives, execution teams, and leadership, driving alignment on resourcing, sequencing, and tradeoffs with clarity and conviction.


What You'll Do
  • 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 the 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.

  • Who You Are
  • You have 6+ years of experience in Product Management, with significant experience building platform, infrastructure, developer platform, or design systems products.
  • You have successfully defined product strategy for complex, cross-functional initiatives involving platform adoption, migrations, or large-scale technical investments.
  • You use AI tools as a natural part of your product management practice, applying them to research, analysis, documentation, synthesis, prototyping, and decision support while exercising thoughtful human judgment.
  • You have strong analytical skills and experience defining product metrics, interpreting data, and using evidence to inform product strategy and prioritization.
  • You understand the principles behind design systems, accessibility, design tokens, semantic components, and modern design tooling, or you're excited to deepen your expertise in these areas.
  • You communicate complex ideas with clarity, adapting your approach to engineers, designers, executives, and cross-functional partners alike.
  • You know how to influence without authority, bringing alignment across multiple teams with differing priorities.
  • You care deeply about building products that enable others to do their best work, raising the quality, consistency, and accessibility of experiences across Spotify.
  • You thrive in ambiguous environments, bringing curiosity, sound judgment, and a bias toward thoughtful execution.

  • Where You'll Be
  • This role is based in Stockholm.
  • 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.
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