Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Spotify

• 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

• 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

• 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

Total funding: $2.1bn

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.