Senior ML Engineering Manager: Lead & Grow ML Teams

Gomyneed Private Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager in London to lead a 10–12 strong ML engineering team, including Staff engineers, in a hybrid role. You will shape the group’s direction, drive audio, text, and video understanding initiatives, and scale the team while remaining hands-on when needed.

You’ll set technical strategy, oversee design and modelling choices, and champion practical AI usage across the team to achieve measurable business impact for listeners.

Qualifications

• Experience leading ML teams and delivering cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong ML judgment with hands-on capability when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead a group of 10+ senior and Staff ML engineers.
• Set technical and team strategy for content understanding problems.
• Own delivery of high-priority initiatives with measurable impact for listeners.

Skills

ML engineering

Staff leadership

NLP

Audio understanding

Recommender systems

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager in London to lead a 10–12 strong ML engineering team, including Staff engineers, in a hybrid role. You will shape the group’s direction, drive audio, text, and video understanding initiatives, and scale the team while remaining hands-on when needed.

You’ll set technical strategy, oversee design and modelling choices, and champion practical AI usage across the team to achieve measurable business impact for listeners.