Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Music
Spotify
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 176,166-251,666 / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 12, 2025
Machine Learning Engineering Manager
Music
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Engineering
Machine Learning
Spotify is looking for a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to join Native Ads team in the Music Mission. In Native Ads, we build consumer and industry-facing music promotion products which provide creators new avenues for promoting their work, reaching new audiences, and deepening their connections with fans. You will play an integral role in shaping the future of Native Ads products, technology and business, and represent Native Ads in the continuously evolving Coordinated Promotions ecosystem by collaborating with key partners in Personalization and Amplify.
Location
- New York
Job type
Permanent
As the Machine Engineering Manager for this team, you will solve complex problems surrounding forecasting campaign budgets, targeting optimization, and observability into campaign delivery systems with the goal to improve overall supply and campaign performance. Develop solutions to provide engaging music experiences for 350+ million active users using user behaviors and contextual information on mobile and connected platforms. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music and the way creators connect to their fans!
What You'll Do
- Lead the team to enhance current Native Ads product performance by experimenting with current and new ML models
- Participate in and challenge your team's systems architecture and modeling approaches, making the appropriate trade-offs based on metrics, quality, performance and cost, aligned with the team’s tech strategy
- Grow the technical expertise of your team through technical leadership and advocating for sound practices
- Identify, advocate for, and lead critical initiatives to advance technical and product performance in Native Ads
- Manage a team of ML, DE, BE and Web engineers to develop, maintain, and own business-critical models that serve the Music Promotion business
- Collaborate with a multi-functional, agile team, spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission
- Foster a healthy, collaborative and productive engineering team in line with our values
- Develop the team’s resilience amid fast change and ambiguity, supporting the team in building confidence in products and tech through prototyping and experimentation
- Grow people and the team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, process and continuous improvement efforts
Who You Are
- You have a strong background in statistics/ML/AI technologies and their application to consumer products
- You are invested in balancing developing thriving engineers and helping teams achieve significant business impact
- You thrive in ambiguity, balancing tech health with speed of impact and learning, and are able to help a team incorporate new information as it emerges
- Your strong product intuition allows you to efficiently connect the dots between multiple systems at Spotify
- You have experience or a strong interest in emerging agent technologies and generative recommender systems
- You aim to build capabilities tha deliver a great, safe, and trusted experience to our customers and Spotify users
- You understand the challenges of deploying and monitoring models in production, and can translate product metrics into model improvement strategies
- A plus if you have some knowledge of Ads systems
Who You Are
- This role is based in New York
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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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.
Learn about life at Spotify
The United States base range for this position is $176,166 - $251,666 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
