Senior Product Manager (Design Systems)

Requirements

  • You have 6+ years of experience in Product Management, with significant experience building platform, infrastructure, developer platform, or design systems products
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  • You have successfully defined product strategy for complex, cross-functional initiatives involving platform adoption, migrations, or large-scale technical investments
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  • 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
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  • You have strong analytical skills and experience defining product metrics, interpreting data, and using evidence to inform product strategy and prioritization
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  • 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
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  • You communicate complex ideas with clarity, adapting your approach to engineers, designers, executives, and cross-functional partners alike
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  • You know how to influence without authority, bringing alignment across multiple teams with differing priorities
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  • You care deeply about building products that enable others to do their best work, raising the quality, consistency, and accessibility of experiences across Spotify
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  • You thrive in ambiguous environments, bringing curiosity, sound judgment, and a bias toward thoughtful execution

What the job involves

  • We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and evolution of Encore, Spotify's design system
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  • In this role, you'll define the vision and roadmap for the design infrastructure that powers product development across the company
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  • You'll work at the intersection of design, engineering, accessibility, and artificial intelligence, ensuring that our systems are built not only for the people using them today, but also for the AI-assisted workflows shaping how software will be built tomorrow
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  • This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strategic thinking, strong product judgment, and the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives through influence
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  • You'll partner closely with engineering, design, research, and leadership to align priorities, make thoughtful trade-offs, and drive measurable outcomes across Spotify's product ecosystem
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  • Define and drive the long-term product strategy and roadmap for Encore, including design tokens, component libraries, accessibility standards, and AI-powered capabilities
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  • 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
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  • Lead prioritization across multiple initiatives, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform investments while clearly communicating trade-offs and rationale to stakeholders
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Establish meaningful success metrics for platform adoption, design quality, accessibility, and developer experience, using both quantitative and qualitative insights to guide investment decisions
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  • Translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans that keep cross-functional teams aligned, focused, and delivering against shared outcomes
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  • Build trusted partnerships across Spotify, helping teams successfully adopt Encore while continuously improving the platform based on user feedback and evolving business needs
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  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and accountability across the teams contributing to Spotify's design infrastructure
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