Senior Manager of Recommendations, SoundCloud

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan

React

TypeScript

Python

Scala

Tensorflow

PyTorch

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

More information about location

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

Open for applications

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan

React

TypeScript

Python

Scala

Tensorflow

PyTorch

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Company mission

To empower artists and fans to connect and share through music.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We care much more about your general engineering and ML skills and positive attitude towards getting things done than any prior knowledge of a particular language or framework
Experience with managing engineers and scientists
A strong engineering and data science background, knowledge and experience on recommendation engine and machine learning systems, being able to evaluate complex technical decisions
Industry experience building data-driven products and implementing machine-learning solutions at scale
Experience in maintaining large cloud systems over time, establishing a technical roadmap and balancing product and engineering concerns
Extensive experience with and in-depth knowledge of agile methodologies
Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and technical innovation
Recruiting and culturally-informed communication skills
If you are excited by the opportunity to directly impact the daily experience and happiness of millions of people around the world, giving them the power to share and connect through music, we’d love to hear from you

What the job involves

As the Senior Manager of the Recommendation teams, you will drive technical strategy and execution of projects to help music fans find great music and help creators to find the best possible audience for their music
You will work closely with Product Managers and UX Researchers to develop experiences helping our customers to find great music in our ever-growing catalog of ~300 million tracks
You will manage the Recommendation teams that research, design, develop and maintain recommendation services at SoundCloud
You will be responsible for products such as personalized home feed ranking, personalized playlists generation, related music recommendations and artist stations as well as ideation and delivery of new services and capabilities
In your role you will have end-to-end ownership of the software engineering and machine learning infrastructure necessary to leverage the data and other resources in order to build and deliver search and recommendation mechanisms
You will prioritize activities, delegate and supervise all engineers’ activities and deliverables
As a people manager you will be responsible for hiring, managing and developing a group of talented software engineers working with cutting-edge technologies such as microservices, Scala, TypeScript/React, Python, data processing platforms such as BigQuery and other Cloud Platform services
You will also grow and work with the team of machine learning engineers and scientists working with variety of ML frameworks including (but not limited to) PyTorch and Tensorflow
We care much more about your general engineering and ML skills and positive attitude towards getting things done than any prior knowledge of a particular language or framework
About the team: We’re a team of 15 people from over 10 countries
Work closely with the Product Managers, UX Researchers and Designers to transform Discovery at SoundCloud
Broadcast the Discovery vision to inspire technical and non-technical stakeholders
Drive short and long-term objectives and key results with full responsibility for executing the OKRs. Be a pragmatic voice showing where to invest engineering effort to drive business outcomes
Lead, support and mentor Engineers and Scientists
Recruit and retain top-notch talents for your teams
Act as a technical liaison and representative for other teams, groups, and the company
Keep in touch with industry trends and technological advances and highlight opportunities that apply to SoundCloud

Our take

Founded in 2007, SoundCloud recognized the need for an artist-first platform. The company set out with a clear mission: to empower independent artists by providing them with the necessary tools and resources to grow and build their careers.

Today, SoundCloud boasts over 40M artists on its platform, far outpacing Spotify, which has 11M. As a result, SoundCloud is the largest audio discovery platform in a rapidly growing market. According to MIDiA Research, the independent artist market is poised for continued revenue growth in the coming years, further solidifying SoundCloud's place in the industry.

The company plans to scale its audience and expand its services through new offerings, such as the SoundCloud "roster". This tier system is designed to provide artists with significant creative and financial resources, along with market support, rivalling major record labels. While artists retain ownership of their copyrights, they will be represented by SoundCloud, further enhancing the platform's appeal to independent creators.