Senior Engineering Manager - ML in London

Overview

Spotify’s Personalization team is building the next generation of intelligent listening experiences.

Across surfaces like DJ, Search, AI Playlists, and Home, we’re evolving from standalone features into a unified, agent-powered platform.

Generative AI is transforming Spotify's product capabilities and technical architecture.

Agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, and agentic reasoning present huge opportunities to serve more user needs.

This Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Systems will focus on the architecture and evolution of Spotify agent‑powered features.

This role sits at the intersection of production systems engineering, LLM infrastructure, evaluation science, and applied research, and requires someone who can operate fluidly across all of them.

The manager will work as a senior individual contributor with significant architectural authority, partnering with a cross‑functional team to define the technical strategy for how Spotify's agents are built, evaluated, and scaled, and driving the consolidation of our agent implementations onto a single engine that can power the next generation of the product.

• What You’ll Do
• Be accountable for teams building the Spotify Agentic Experience, delivering new and innovative products that sit at the heart of the music, podcast, and audiobooks experience.
• Collaborate with a wide range of partners to develop a generative AI tech strategy that keeps Spotify at the forefront of innovation.
• Provide servant leadership to several teams working across research, machine learning, engineering management, backend engineering, and data science.
• Advocate for and increase knowledge of advanced Gen AI capabilities across the company, influencing senior leaders.
• Cultivate a balanced, collaborative engineering culture and a diverse & inclusive team that reflects our customers and the world.
• Directly manage approximately five to ten people.
• Collaborate with product leads to define strategy, success metrics, and roadmaps.
• Influence the technical design and architecture of the Conversation team’s stack.
• Influence the Personalization team’s research and roadmap, collaborating with leaders throughout the company to plan and execute impactful initiatives requiring many teams.

Who You Are

• Have significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies and their application to high‑scale consumer products.
• Have demonstrated ability to lead a modern generative AI team (e. g., transformers, diffusion) to incorporate generative AI into consumer‑facing products, continuously improving models for users while optimizing performance and cost.
• Practice servant leadership, strong mentorship and coaching skills, thriving when helping individuals and teams reach their full potential.
• Love facilitating collaboration among several teams, developing and growing teams and their leaders while driving delivery.
• Can distill complex information into easy‑to‑understand concepts and lead a team through ambiguity.
• Thrive when bringing research to market as amazing products for users.
• Where You’ll Be
• Flexibility to work where you work best. For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location.
• Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Spotify is an equal‑opportunity employer.

We welcome everyone, regardless of background.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, let us know.

We may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process; final hiring decisions are made by humans.

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