Senior Product Manager - Ads Optimization

Lead the evolution of ad technologies at Spotify, improving revenue and user experience through innovative strategies and cross-team collaboration in a global, flexible role.

Full-time
Mid-Senior
On-Site

Lead the evolution of ad technologies at Spotify, improving revenue and user experience through innovative strategies and cross-team collaboration in a global, flexible role.

Entertainment
Social Platforms

Salary Not Specified

Spotify

HQ:
Stockholm, Sweden
Entertainment
Social Platforms

Spotify is a global audio streaming platform that lets users discover, share, and enjoy millions of tracks while supporting artists worldwide.

1000+ employees
IPO / Public

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Job Description

What You'll Do
  • Identify and prioritize needs for advertisers, listeners, and internal teams working on playback, ad formats, and ad serving
  • Work cross-functionally with client and backend engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, product marketing, and PMs across Ads to identify and drive opportunities for improved revenue and user experience
  • Create a roadmap to improve auction pacing, with a direct impact on Spotify revenue
  • Define what good pacing looks like and move beyond “full budget delivery” as the sole objective, guiding the transition from heuristics to more efficient ML-driven spend
  • Iterate on goal-based (or target cost) and automatic bidding algorithms
  • Create a roadmap to improve client platform capabilities, enabling new placements and formats, providing real-time contextual signals for ranking, and improving our measurement of potential ad opportunities.
  • Collaborate closely with core playback team to align the Spotify player vision with the ads vision
  • Deliver consistent, measurable improvements while steering long-term architectural shifts
  • Create a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing environment for your squad
  • Who You Are
  • You have 5+ years of experience driving technical products with proven user and business impact.
  • You have worked with machine learning and understand how to build a roadmap around ML priorities.
  • You have experience or an interest in advertising products.
  • You are comfortable facilitating planning and decision-making across several teams, including partners, and know how to encourage and empower teams to get things done.
  • You have sound business judgment as well as ability to analyze qualitatively, quantitatively, problem-solve, and prioritize.
  • You have strong written and oral communications skills, and can clearly communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
  • Where You'll Be
  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.