Senior Engineering Manager, ML

• Lead teams building Spotify's Agentic Experience, delivering products at the heart of music, podcast, and audiobook discovery. • Develop a generative AI tech strategy that keeps Spotify at the forefront of innovation. • Provide servant leadership across research, machine learning, engineering, backend, and data teams. • Advocate for advanced Gen AI capabilities across the company, including influencing senior leadership. • 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. • Directly manage approximately 5–10 people.

• Have significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies applied to high-scale consumer products. • Have demonstrated ability to lead a modern generative AI team (e.g. transformers, diffusion, and other recent technologies) to incorporate Gen AI into consumer-facing products. • Practise servant leadership with strong mentorship and coaching skills. • Thrive when facilitating collaboration among several teams, developing and growing teams and their leaders while driving delivery. • Distil complex information into easy-to-understand concepts and lead teams through ambiguity. • Thrive when bringing research to market as products for users.

• Have experience with LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, and agentic reasoning systems. • Have a background in production systems engineering or LLM infrastructure. • Have experience with evaluation science for AI systems. • Have experience consolidating multiple implementations onto a single platform or engine. • Have worked at the intersection of applied research and product engineering.

• Be accountable for teams building Spotify's Agentic Experience across music, podcasts, and audiobooks. • Define and drive the technical strategy for how Spotify's agents are built, evaluated, and scaled. • Drive the consolidation of agent implementations onto a single engine powering the next generation of the product. • Partner with cross-functional teams to define the architecture and evolution of agent-powered features. • Cultivate a balanced, collaborative engineering culture and a diverse and inclusive team. • Collaborate with leaders throughout the company to plan and execute initiatives requiring many teams.

• 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's Personalization team is building the next generation of intelligent listening experiences across surfaces like DJ, Search, AI Playlists, and Home. Generative AI is transforming Spotify's product capabilities and technical architecture, with agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, and agentic reasoning presenting major opportunities. Spotify is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity and accessibility throughout its recruitment process.