- Company: Spotify
- Location: London or Stockholm
- Job type: Permanent
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About the role
Spotify is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the Content Platform team. You will manage a senior-heavy group of 10 to 12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers. This is a player-coach position where you will shape the team’s strategic direction, grow audio understanding expertise, and drive the practical use of AI in daily engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of over 10 senior and Staff machine learning engineers.
- Set technical and team strategy for content understanding problems and create achievable plans.
- Own the delivery of high-priority company initiatives from problem definition to measurable impact.
- Act as a player-coach by reviewing designs, guiding modelling choices, and contributing hands-on where needed.
- Define and champion a practical approach to using AI tools to improve ML engineer productivity.
- Partner with product, design, research, and other engineering leaders to align priorities.
Requirements
- Deep machine learning expertise with Staff-level technical judgement.
- Experience in NLP, audio/music content understanding, and recommender systems.
- A track record of managing engineering teams while delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience coaching senior and Staff engineers to help them grow their impact.
- A clear point of view on using AI to improve ML engineering workflows.
- Strong strategic thinking and clear communication skills.
Pay and benefits
The role is based in London or Stockholm. Spotify offers flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings required but allowing for remote work.
How to apply
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