Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Spotify
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$176-252k
Plus equity
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$176-252k
Plus 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
- You have a background in and significant expertise in statistics/ML/AI technologies and their application to consumer products
- You have demonstrated the ability to lead a team
- You 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 to impact
- You thrive when bringing research to market as amazing products for users
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineering Manager (ML EM II) to join the PSP product area of hardworking engineers that are passionate about making our recommendations more business and cost aware
- As an integral part of the squad, you will collaborate with engineers, research scientists, and data in prototyping and productizing state-of-the-art ML
- Be accountable for the team’s delivery of engineering systems that help users discover novel content and creators to grow their audience
- Together with a wide range of collaborators, develop a vision and strategy for strategy and business-aware recommendations that keeps Spotify at the forefront of innovation in the field
- Advocate for and increase knowledge of team’s products 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 engineers, consisting of backend/data engineers and machine learning engineers
- Collaborate with the team’s product lead to define strategy, success metrics and roadmaps
- Influence the technical design and architecture of the team’s stack
- Influence the team’s research roadmap. Collaborate with leaders throughout the company to plan and execute impactful initiatives requiring many teams
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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