Senior Product Manager, Design Systems

• Lead the strategy and evolution of Encore, Spotify's design system that powers product development across the company. • Work at the intersection of design, engineering, accessibility, and artificial intelligence. • Ensure systems are built for the people using them today and for the AI-assisted workflows shaping how software will be built tomorrow. • Partner closely with engineering, design, research, and leadership to align priorities, make thoughtful trade-offs, and drive measurable outcomes.

• Have 6+ years of experience in Product Management, with significant experience building platform, infrastructure, developer platform, or design systems products. • Have successfully defined product strategy for complex, cross-functional initiatives involving platform adoption, migrations, or large-scale technical investments. • Use AI tools as a natural part of your product management practice, applying them to research, analysis, documentation, synthesis, prototyping, and decision support. • Have strong analytical skills and experience defining product metrics, interpreting data, and using evidence to inform strategy and prioritisation. • Understand the principles behind design systems, accessibility, design tokens, semantic components, and modern design tooling. • Communicate complex ideas with clarity, adapting your approach to engineers, designers, executives, and cross-functional partners. • Know how to influence without authority, bringing alignment across multiple teams with differing priorities. • Care deeply about building products that enable others to do their best work. • Thrive in ambiguous environments with curiosity, sound judgement, and a bias toward thoughtful execution.

• Have hands-on experience with design tokens, component libraries, or accessibility standards. • Have experience shaping AI-enabled design or developer tooling. • Have worked on platform adoption or migration strategies at scale. • Have experience with modern design tools such as Figma and their plugin ecosystems. • Have a background in developer experience or internal platform products.

• Define and drive the long-term product strategy and roadmap for Encore, including design tokens, component libraries, accessibility standards, and AI-powered capabilities. • Partner with engineering, design, accessibility, and platform teams to evolve systems that enable consistent, high-quality user experiences. • Lead prioritisation across multiple initiatives, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform investments. • Champion the use of AI throughout the product development lifecycle, leveraging AI-powered tools to synthesise research, explore solutions, and accelerate decision-making. • Shape Spotify's strategy for AI-enabled design tooling, identifying where AI can improve design workflows, component quality, documentation, and adoption. • Establish meaningful success metrics for platform adoption, design quality, accessibility, and developer experience. • Translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans that keep cross-functional teams aligned and delivering against shared outcomes. • Build trusted partnerships across Spotify, helping teams adopt Encore while continuously improving the platform. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and accountability across teams contributing to design infrastructure.

• Access extensive learning opportunities through Spotify's dedicated team, GreenHouse. • Receive flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in Spotify's success. • Take six months of global parental leave for all new parents. • Use All The Feels, the employee assistance programme and self-care hub. • Swap public holidays flexibly according to your values and beliefs.

Spotify is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead Encore, the design system powering product development across the company. This is a senior individual contributor role at the intersection of design, engineering, accessibility, and AI, requiring strategic thinking, strong product judgement, and the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives through influence. Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.