Lead product strategy and vision for backend developer experience, drive AI/LLM-powered tooling across the SDLC, manage and develop a team of Product Managers, partner with engineering leadership to prioritize investments, and deliver platform initiatives (monorepo, deployment, observability) to improve developer productivity and reliability.
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
Core Infrastructure is a studio within Spotify's Platform Mission focused on building the foundational systems that engineers rely on every day. Within Core Infrastructure, the Backend Experience & Tools (BEAT) Product Area defines the future of backend development at Spotify. Our portfolio spans service frameworks, deployment tooling, observability, and the monorepo experience that powers backend services across the company. As AI transforms the way software is built, we're reimagining the entire backend developer experience to become agent-native, helping thousands of engineers build, ship, and operate software more effectively.
What You'll Do
- Lead the product strategy for BEAT and define the vision for agent-native backend development across Spotify's platform.
- Shape how AI and LLM-powered capabilities transform the software development lifecycle, from coding and code review to deployment, observability, and incident response.
- Stay close to the product by using and evaluating BEAT's developer tools, applying AI-augmented workflows, and leading high-impact product initiatives directly where needed.
- Lead and develop a team of Product Managers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team that operates with shared ownership and a consistently high product quality bar.
- Partner closely with the Engineering Area Lead to align priorities, make investment decisions, and balance trade-offs across four engineering squads supporting approximately 40 engineers.
- Build trusted partnerships with senior engineers and the Backend Advisory Board to ensure the roadmap reflects the evolving needs of Spotify's backend engineering community.
- Collaborate across Product Areas, studios, and the broader Platform Mission to deliver shared infrastructure initiatives and drive alignment on strategic investments.
- Own delivery against Core Infrastructure's strategic commitments, including AI-native product development lifecycle initiatives and continued adoption of the monorepo experience.
Who You Are
- You have experience leading product organizations that build internal developer platforms, infrastructure products, or engineering tools at scale.
- You have successfully developed and coached Product Managers across different levels of experience while building strong, collaborative leadership teams.
- You have a deep understanding of how AI and large language models are transforming software development and are excited to apply that thinking to developer platforms.
- You know how to balance long-term product vision with hands-on execution, stepping into ambiguous product problems when needed.
- You are experienced partnering with senior engineering leaders, staff engineers, and technical advisory groups to build alignment and shared direction.
- You have experience defining meaningful success metrics for internal platform products focused on developer productivity, reliability, adoption, and engineering effectiveness.
- You communicate complex technical and strategic concepts clearly, adapting your approach for engineering audiences, product leaders, and executives alike.
- You care about creating inclusive products and fostering an environment where diverse perspectives contribute to better decisions and stronger outcomes.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
- This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.
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