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.
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What You'll Do- 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.
Who You Are- 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.
Where You'll Be- 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.
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