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Senior Engineering Manager - ML

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to lead a modern generative AI team
  • Strong mentorship and coaching skills
  • Ability to distill complex information into easy-to-understand concepts

Responsibilities

  • Be accountable for teams building Spotify Agentic Experience
  • Develop a generative AI tech strategy
  • Provide servant leadership to several teams
  • Collaborate with a product lead to define strategy, success metrics, and roadmaps

Key facts

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Mentorship
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Adaptability

About the company

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Spotify

Music

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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryMusic
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Spotify’s Personalization team is building the next generation of intelligent listening experiences. Across surfaces like DJ, Search, AI Playlists, and Home, we’re evolving from standalone features into a unified, agent-powered platform. 

Generative AI is transforming Spotify's product capabilities and technical architecture. Agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, and agentic reasoning present huge opportunities for our products to serve more user needs and use cases, and to unlock richer, more dynamic relationships between listeners and the things they love.

This Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Systems will focus on the architecture and evolution of Spotify agent-powered features. This role sits at the intersection of production systems engineering, LLM infrastructure, evaluation science, and applied research, and it requires someone who can operate fluidly across all of them. You will work as a senior individual contributor with significant architectural authority, partnering with a cross-functional team to define the technical strategy for how Spotify's agents are built, evaluated, and scaled, and driving the consolidation of our agent implementations onto a single engine that can power the next generation of the product.


What You'll Do
  • Be accountable for teams building Spotify Agentic Experience delivering new and innovative products at the heart of music, podcast and audiobooks users love.

  • Together with a wide range of collaborators, develop a generative AI tech strategy that keeps Spotify at the forefront of innovation in the field.

  • Provide servant leadership to several teams working across research, machine learning, engineering management, backend engineers, and data specialists.

  • Advocate for and increase knowledge of advanced Gen AI capabilities across the company, including influencing the company’s most senior leaders.

  • Cultivate a balanced, collaborative engineering culture and a diverse and inclusive team that reflects our customers and our world.

  • Directly manage ~5-10 people.

  • Collaborate with a product lead to define strategy, success metrics and roadmaps.

  • Influence the technical design and architecture of the Conversation team’s stack.

  • Influence the Personalization team’s research and roadmap. Collaborate with leaders throughout the company to plan and execute impactful initiatives requiring many teams.


  • Who You Are
  • You have significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies and their application to high scale consumer products.

  • You have demonstrated the ability to lead a modern generative AI team (e.g. transformers, diffusion and other recent technologies) to incorporate generative AI into consumer facing products, continuously making the models better for users while optimizing performance and cost.

  • You practice servant leadership, have strong mentorship and coaching skills, and thrive when helping individuals and teams perform to their full potential.

  • You love facilitating collaboration among several teams, developing and growing teams and their leaders while driving delivery.

  • You are able to distill complex information into easy-to-understand concepts, and understand how to lead a team through ambiguity.

  • You thrive when bringing research to market as amazing products for users.


  • Where You'll Be
  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the US region as long as we have a work location
  • This team operates within the US Eastern timezone for collaboration
  • The United States base range for this position is $259,000–$324,000 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
     
     

    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.
     

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