10 Spotify product leaders
If a Spotify product question touches personalization, podcasts, music and creators, the core app, partner devices or experimentation, someone in this group has held the title for it: two senior vice presidents, five vice presidents and three directors or general managers, all currently at Spotify. Product teams planning a recommendation feature, a creator tool or a move onto cars and TVs would get the most from a call.
Professionals to explore
Arthur Nicholls
LinkedInExperience: VP, Partner & Platform Experience · Spotify
Arthur Nicholls has been VP, Partner & Platform Experience since 2026, a group that brings Spotify to cars, wearables, TVs, game consoles, desktops, web, voice assistants and AI agents. Prior titles include Senior Director of Product Management at Spotify (2023-2026), VP Product, Patient Experience at Kry (2022) and Spotify Product Director roles for Platform & Partner Experiences (2021-2022) and Off Platform Experience (2020-2021).
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Austin Lamon
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Product for Podcasts · Spotify
With Senior Director, Product for Podcasts at Spotify since 2025 and Director, Product for Podcasts before it (2023-2025), Austin Lamon covers podcast product. Other titles are Director, GM of Backstage (2020-2023) and Group Product Manager - Core Infrastructure (2018-2020) at Spotify and Senior Product Manager at Capital One (2015-2018), adding infrastructure product experience.
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Babar Zafar
LinkedInExperience: VP Product & Head of Content Platform · Spotify
Babar Zafar has been VP Product & Head of Content Platform since 2025, building an ML and AI-native team for Spotify's content catalog, safety and zero-to-one work, and was VP Product & Head of Growth R&D (2017-2025). Director of Product (Growth) (2015-2017), Group Product Manager (2014-2015) and Senior Product Manager (2011-2014) round out a Spotify record suited to growth and catalog platform questions.
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Charlie Hellman
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Global Head of Music · Spotify
SVP, Global Head of Music at Spotify since 2025. Charlie Hellman's earlier Spotify titles are VP, Global Head of Music Product (2021-2025), VP, Head of Marketplace (2017-2021), VP Product, Creator (2015-2017) and VP Product, Consumer Features (2012-2015), so questions spanning music, creator and marketplace products all fit.
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David Nyhan
LinkedInExperience: General Manager · Spotify
General Manager at Spotify since 2023. As Senior Director Director of Product Management (2021-2023), David Nyhan was personalization product lead for Home recommendations, search, promotions, LTV and the personalization platform, after Group Product Manager (2018-2021) and Senior Product Manager (2018) roles at Spotify, which fits recommendation and LTV questions.
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Johan Rydberg
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product, General Manager for Experimentation Platform Confidence by Spotify · Spotify
Johan Rydberg leads both product and engineering for Spotify's experimentation platform, including Confidence, as Director of Product, General Manager for Experimentation Platform Confidence by Spotify (since 2024). Other Spotify titles are General Manager, Experimentation Platform Confidence by Spotify (2023-2024), Principal Product Manager, Data Infrastructure (2019-2023) and Director of Engineering, Data Infrastructure (2016-2017).
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Miles Lennon
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Music Product · Spotify
Now Vice President, Music Product (since 2025), Miles Lennon was Senior Director, GM of Spotify for Artists and Music Promotion (2023-2025), Senior Director, GM of Music Promotion (2020-2023), Director of Product, Creator (2018-2020) and Senior Product Manager, Creator (2015-2018) at Spotify. Artist tools and music promotion products are the natural topics.
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Molly Holder
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Personalization · Spotify
Vice President, Personalization at Spotify since 2025 and General Manager there (2024-2025). As Sr. Director of Product (2022-2024), Molly Holder led product strategy for personalized listening experiences, and Molly was also Director of Product Management, Personalization Platform at Spotify (2021) and Vice President, Personalization at SiriusXM (2021-2022).
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Natasa Soltic
LinkedInExperience: VP, Core Experience · Spotify
VP, Core Experience at Spotify since 2024, after Head of Core Experience Product & Engineering (2023-2024), Senior Director of Product Management (2021-2023) and Director of Product Management roles in Consumer Experience (2020-2021) and Growth (2019-2020). Natasa Soltic owned the Spotify Navigation, Catalogue, Browse & Search experiences and worked across desktop, web and mobile, a fit for app navigation and search questions.
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Sten Garmark
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President of Product Management · Spotify
Sten Garmark is Senior Vice President, Global Head of Consumer Experience at Spotify (since 2025) and was Vice President, Global Head of Consumer Experience (2016-2025). Earlier Spotify titles were Vice President of Product Management (2013-2016), Director of Product Management (2012-2013) and Director of Platform (2011-2012), covering how the consumer app is run at the top.
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Choose the right perspective
For the overall consumer app, start with Sten Garmark or Natasa Soltic; for music and artist tools, Charlie Hellman or Miles Lennon. Recommendation questions fit Molly Holder or David Nyhan, catalog and content platform questions fit Babar Zafar, and Arthur Nicholls, Johan Rydberg and Austin Lamon cover partner devices, experimentation and podcasts.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Spotify decide which surfaces in the app, such as Home, Search or Browse, get personalized and which stay editorial?
- 02When Spotify takes the app to cars, TVs, consoles or voice assistants, which product decisions are made centrally and which by each partner team?
- 03How does Spotify's experimentation platform shape whether a product change ships, and what results have overturned a team's plan?
About this directory
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