Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager

Spotify; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify designs the company's consumer experience end to end across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.

If it touches a consumer, we shape it—bridging design, behavior, and technology to craft intuitive, expressive experiences. You will lead a senior-heavy group of 10–12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers, in a player-coach role with a strong strategic

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior-heavy group of 10–12 ML engineers.
• Shape where the group goes next with a strong strategic remit for AI in everyday engineering work.
• Grow our audio understanding expertise over the long term and help the team scale through thoughtful, practical use of AI in engineering workflows.

Job description

We design the company's consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where the company shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably the company.

You'll lead a senior-heavy group of 10–12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers, who team up dynamically to solve high-priority business problems while staying deep in content understanding (audio, video and text). This is a player-coach role with a strong strategic remit: you'll shape where the group goes next, grow our audio understanding expertise over the long term, and help the team scale through thoughtful, practical use of AI in everyday engineering work.