Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Product Manager role sits in the kind of internal-platform work that underpins mature SaaS and subscription businesses: connectivity as a shared capability used by many product teams. Owning a client connectivity layer that spans iOS, Android, and C++ places product thinking directly on the boundary between end-user experience and the developer experience that enables it, where reliability, latency, and efficiency become product features in their own right.
For a SaaS career, this is a strong pathway into platform product leadership—work that scales through leverage rather than through a single surface area. The remit emphasizes metrics-driven decision-making across an end-to-end traffic stack, offering repeated exposure to how SaaS organizations balance performance, cost, and user impact. It also builds transferable skill in translating complex systems constraints into roadmaps that internal engineering “customers” can adopt.
The role best suits a product manager who prefers technical depth, cross-team alignment, and long-horizon improvements over short-cycle feature delivery. It aligns with professionals who enjoy being accountable for developer-facing outcomes, can communicate across client and backend domains, and want to operate where platform standards influence many downstream teams.
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Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the newly formed Connectivity team, a team at the heart of Spotify's Core Infrastructure area. You will be responsible for driving the product strategy for Spotify’s client connectivity layer, the foundational SDK that powers networking for all Spotify applications across iOS, Android, and C++ platforms. By unifying the product thinking across our entire traffic stack, from the client to the backend, you will empower hundreds of engineering teams to build features that are reliable, performant, and efficient for millions of users worldwide. This is a critical role that will shape end-to-end connectivity experience for our listeners.
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What You'll Do- Drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the client connectivity at Spotify, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our engineering teams and support company bets.
- Deeply understand the developer experience and the challenges engineers face with client-to-backend communication, and translate those insights into impactful platform improvements.
- Define and analyze metrics that measure end-to-end connectivity performance, including reliability, latency, power consumption, and cost, using data to inform your product decisions.
- Collaborate closely with the engineering manager and the engineers on the Connectivity team, as well as with key partners in backend traffic and other client-facing studios.
- Serve as a "developer evangelist" for the connectivity platform, championing its benefits and guiding teams on best practices for building resilient and efficient features.
- Stay current with industry trends in mobile networking, modern transport protocols, and real-time messaging to evolve our platform and unblock future innovation.
Who You Are- You have a strong technical background and are comfortable engaging in in-depth discussions about complex client-server systems and networking protocols.
- You are passionate about building outstanding developer experiences and understand what a great internal platform looks like.
- You have experience with client networking fundamentals (HTTP/2+, gRPC, TLS, caching, retries), Pub/Sub messaging systems, and strategies for improving performance in resource-constrained mobile environments.
- You are an excellent communicator who can articulate a compelling vision and bring complex ideas to a wide range of audiences, from client engineers to backend infrastructure specialists and senior leadership.
- Experience with developers as your primary users is a major plus!
Where You'll Be- This role is based in London (UK) or Stockholm (Sweden).
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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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.
