Principal Product Manager, Habit Formation

Spotify

Principal Product Manager at Spotify shaping the future of user engagement through AI and personalization strategies. Overseeing product management for consumer experiences across global markets.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $182,308 - $260,441 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management with a focus on habit formation, user engagement, and behavioral analytics. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence product strategy to create exceptional consumer experiences.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product Management ExperienceBehavioral AnalyticsExperimentationMachine Learning-Powered ProductsStakeholder Alignment

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Hard Skills

Product MetricsQuantitative Decision MakingPersonalizationRecommender SystemsAI-Powered ProductsBehavioral ScienceHabit Formation PrinciplesPrototypingData Exploration

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationInfluencingBuilding Trusted RelationshipsOwnership

Industry Keywords

Consumer ProductsUser EngagementProduct StrategyInformation ArchitectureUser Research

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the long-term vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for Habit Formation across Spotify's consumer experience.
Build the behavioral intelligence that helps identify when listeners are ready to discover new formats, features, or experiences.
Partner with engineering, machine learning, design, research, and data science to build experiences powered by behavioral insights and experimentation.
Translate advances in AI, recommendation models, and intelligent agents into intuitive consumer experiences that millions of listeners love.
Develop systems that encourage sustainable engagement while ensuring teams work together instead of competing for user attention.
Influence the evolution of Spotify's surfaces, information architecture, and product experiences to reinforce lasting listening habits.
Use experimentation, behavioral analysis, and user research to identify opportunities and make informed product decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.
Set clear product direction, make thoughtful prioritization decisions, and align senior leaders around a shared strategy.
Drive execution across multiple engineering teams while balancing quality, speed, user trust, and long-term business impact.
Establish Habit Formation as a strategic product capability that enables sustainable growth across Spotify.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of product management experience building consumer products at significant global scale.
Successfully built products that create sustained behavior change and long-term user engagement.
Deep experience with experimentation, behavioral analytics, product metrics, and quantitative decision making.
Knowledge to partner closely with engineering, machine learning, data science, research, and design teams.
Experience shaping strategy across multiple products, platforms, or consumer experiences.
Demonstrated success aligning senior stakeholders around ambitious product visions within complex organizations.
Care deeply about product quality and the details that create exceptional customer experiences.
Balance emerging technologies with proven approaches and exercise strong judgment when making investment decisions.
Make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous situations and take ownership for outcomes.
Communicate clearly, influence effectively, and build trusted relationships across teams.
Experience with personalization, recommender systems, or machine learning-powered consumer products.
Explored behavioral science or habit formation principles and understand how they can improve product experiences.
Experience building AI-powered, LLM, or agentic consumer products at production scale.
Helped evolve product measurement beyond traditional engagement metrics toward more meaningful customer outcomes.
Comfortable exploring data, prototyping ideas, and using evidence to accelerate learning.
Passionate about audio, discovery, and creating experiences that help people build lasting relationships with content.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays
paid sick leave