Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Spotify
Personalization
$176.2-251.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$176.2-251.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
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
Role
Who you are
- Experienced leading delivery of consumer-facing ML products at scale
- Energized by rapid change, ambiguity, and opportunity, with a proven track record transforming innovative ideas into impactful products
- Skilled with current generative AI and agent technologies
- Actively using AI-assisted coding and product development tools to prototype new products
- Expert in modern ML theory, practices, and their practical implementation
- Comfortable providing detailed technical direction and resolving complex engineering challenges
- Collaborative and influential, thriving in strategic discussions with senior engineers and managers
- Focused on user outcomes, rigorously grounding decisions in user data and insights
- Experienced in nurturing technical talent, committed to growing engineers' skills in technology and leadership
What the job involves
- The Next Generation Sessions (NextGen) product area within Personalization is evolving listening beyond playlists, inventing new personalized listening (and watching!) sessions such as AI DJ, AI Playlist, Blend, Podcast Discovery Feed, and Music Discovery Feed
- NextGen is a team of about 100 engineers, scientists, product managers, and music and voice domain experts working remotely and in offices in New York, Boston, London, and Stockholm
- This ML Engineering Manager role will provide technical leadership to a newly formed squad of ~12 engineers focusing on exciting new AI-driven music session experiences
- In collaboration with a cross-functional and cross-team leadership group, you will drive expansion of NextGen's AI experiences in music, leveraging the success of AI DJ and AI Playlist, advancing and spearheading the development of entirely new music recommendations experiences and capabilities
- Lead a talented team of ML, backend, and data engineers to build and launch innovative AI-driven personalized music experiences
- Debate and align technical strategies with senior engineering leaders and partner teams, translate these strategies clearly back to your squad, and actively guide architectural vision and day-to-day ML modeling and coding decisions
- Bring external experience in generative AI and agent frameworks to enhance Spotify's personalized music sessions
- Navigate ambiguity, driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development in cross-functional teams
- Champion AI-assisted coding practices, continually expanding the team's technical capabilities
- Foster strong research partnerships to scale innovative solutions from experimentation to production
- Develop and grow your team's talent through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative, adaptive culture
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
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