Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Content Platform

Spotify; London (KY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a senior ML engineering leader to guide a dedicated team of 10–12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers, across product- and platform-level initiatives. You will shape the group's direction, grow our audio understanding capabilities, and scale practical AI usage across engineering work.

This player-coach role emphasizes strategic impact and hands-on collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior-heavy group of 10–12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers.
• Shape the team's direction and scale AI usage across engineering.

Job description

We design Spotify'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 Spotify 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 Spotify.

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.