Principal Product Manager, AI Developer Experience

AI is redefining the developer experience and unlocking incredible new opportunities for engineers to ship higher-quality code, faster. At Spotify, the Athena Product Area has been at the forefront of this transformation. Over the past two years, we’ve built Aika, our AI developer assistant, and expanded into Aika Goalie Bot, MCP governance, workforce AI training, and Code Migrations. These products have reshaped how developers at Spotify work, almost every active developer now relies on them daily.

Recently, we’ve also taken Aika beyond Spotify, making it available through our Backstage Portal to external customers. This marks the initial steps in reshaping the impact AI can have on boosting developer efficiency within our organization and across the industry.

About the role

We seek a Principal Product Manager to lead the next phase of AI in developer experience. You will develop the long-term strategy and implementation for AI developers tools used by many Spotify engineers and a quickly growing group of external Backstage Portal customers.

High-impact role merging visionary strategy with hands-on product leadership, requiring deep expertise in developer tooling and understanding AI's impact on workflows. We’re looking for someone who is deeply curious about how AI can be used in development workflows as well as driven to deliver significant business impact.

• Take charge of the vision, strategy, and roadmap for three squads improving AI developer experience at Spotify and Backstage Portal in collaboration with Spotify's devex and AI leaders
• Develop positive relationships with internal product, data, and engineering teams to deeply understand developer needs and foster feedback loops that inform product direction.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams, the design team, and data science team to ensure solutions align with Spotify’s evolving product and developer practices.
• Partner with the GTM team to grow the adoption and success of our external AI developer products, balancing priorities between internal and external needs.
• Find opportunities to modernize and automate workflows using emerging AI capabilities like LLMs, MCPs, and agents.
• Define success metrics, track adoption, and continuously improve the developer experience.
• Stay informed on industry trends, research, and standard methods in developer experience and tooling for Spotify and beyond.

• You have 7+ years of product management experience and a proven track record of shipping customer-facing products.
• You’ve built and scaled SaaS B2B products and developer-facing tools.
• You have a deep understanding of the developer journey and the jobs to be done for developers, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
• You bring expertise in AI technologies such as LLMs, RAG, MCP, AI agents, and evaluation frameworks, ideally with experience building AI-powered developer tools.
• You’re skilled at making data-informed decisions using A/B experimentation, customer feedback, market analysis, and usage metrics.
• You’re excited by fast paced, innovative spaces and passionate about making developers’ workflows delightful and efficient.
• You’re a strong communicator and storyteller, able to inspire and align with partners across technical and non-technical audiences.
• You bring systems thinking and analytical expertise to build product strategies that connect across teams and platforms.
• You’re comfortable working in distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Background in platform engineering or experience as a developer.

• This role is based in Stockholm, Sweden or London, United Kingdom.
• We ask that you come in 2 times per week.
• This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.

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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.