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Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager | Life at Spotify The Way We Play Find Your Team Start Your Journey All Jobs The Way We Play Find Your Team Start Your Journey Latest All Jobs Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager Link copied to clipboard. Apply now Apply Engineering Engineering Leadership Permanent London or Stockholm 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.
What You'll Do Lead, coach and grow a group of 10+ senior and Staff machine learning engineers who team up dynamically around business problems while staying deep in their domain. Set technical and team strategy for multiple content understanding problems and turn it into clear, achievable plans. Own delivery of high-priority company initiatives, from shaping the problem through to measurable impact for listeners. Stay close to the technology as a player-coach. Lead technical strategy, reviewing designs, guiding modelling and retrieval choices, and contributing hands-on where it helps
the team most. Define and champion a practical point of view on how ML engineers use AI tools in their day-to-day work, and help
the team realise real productivity gains. Partner with product, design, research and other engineering leaders across Spotify to align priorities and share context.
Who You Are You have deep machine learning expertise and Staff-level technical judgement, and you're comfortable getting hands-on when it matters. You bring experience across NLP, audio / music content understanding and recommender systems. You have a track record of managing engineering teams while delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives. You enjoy coaching senior and Staff engineers, and you help experienced people grow their impact. You have a clear, informed point of view on using AI to improve how ML engineers work, and you can inspire a team to adopt it. You think strategically, communicate clearly, and can balance long-term bets with near-term delivery. Where You'll Be This role is based in London or Stockholm. We offer the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meeetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. Our global
benefits 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 - 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. Similar jobs Backend Engineer, Platform Security London or Stockholm London or Stockholm Engineering Backend Permanent Backend Engineer, Data Platform London or Stockholm London or Stockholm Engineering Data Permanent Staff Engineer, Content Platform London or Stockholm London or Stockholm Engineering Permanent See all similar jobs Quick clicks More about Engineering Engineering category See our London office London office Find out about Start Your Journey Start Your Journey Sound Good? Get to know our hiring process before you apply or find answers to any lingering questions, right here, right now. Start Your Journey Start Your Journey Read our FAQ Read our FAQ Communities Creators Developers Artists Engineering Research Stay Updated Instagram LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Career The Way We Play Students How We Hire All Jobs Reports Equity and Impact Report 2025 UK Gender Pay Report 2025 © 2026 Spotify AB. Legal Privacy center Privacy policy AI Notice About ads © 2026 Spotify AB. Legal Privacy center Privacy policy AI Notice About ads
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Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.
It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.
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Job details
Location
Stockholm, London
Funding
Total raised
$2.1B
Last stage
Public
Investors
Founders
Martin Lorentzon
Co-Founder
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