More and more companies now mention "experience with tech" in PM job listings. At the same time, I often hear from the same PMs that "tech is not our job." Let's take one job listing and analyze it in this light.
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That's what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them,
Maintaining and scaling the Playlist Platform for the large internal customer base and supporting the playlists of millions of users.
Collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers and data scientists to identify problems, opportunities and solutions that will support the needs of our users and impact our goals / metrics.
Good understanding of how to define and build APIs which can be utilized by internal customers of a platform. Ability to understand tech architecture and systems and to know when a solution should be platformed or not (cost/opportunity exercise).
- Identifying new opportunities to evolve the platform
- Building a platform that scales for many clients (ubiquity strategy)
- Ensure the platform is build on modern language and optimized
- You have experience in contributing, debating and crafting strategies
- You have strong writing and debating skills to take part in strategic discussions