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Director of ML Engineering, Conversation Product Area

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Sweden, Europe, North America, United States
Full-time
Executive
Director of Engineering
Software Development
Machine Learning Microservices
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Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

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Founded 2006
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Description

  • Own engineering execution and technical direction for the Conversation Product Area, including the Agent Engine, evaluation infrastructure, Search platform, AI Voice platform, and consumer agentic features.
  • Co-lead the Product Area in a paired product/engineering model, sharing planning, prioritization, and external representation with the product counterpart.
  • Manage a team of about 70 engineers through a layer of Senior Engineering Managers and Staff/Principal engineers.
  • Develop, coach, and hold accountable the engineering management layer across the product area’s roughly nine teams.
  • Drive migration of Spotify’s existing agentic infrastructure onto the shared Agent Engine in partnership with product teams across the company.
  • Set the technical strategy for Spotify’s first-party voice investment, including build-versus-buy decisions and delivery timelines.
  • Define and enforce the technical bar for evaluation, including feature-specific judges, datasets, and data-driven product decisions.
  • Set engineering quality standards for AI-assisted development, including code review discipline and test coverage.
  • Participate in broader leadership planning around capacity management, project prioritization, communication principles, and engineering culture.
  • Represent the Conversation Product Area’s engineering perspective in company-wide architecture and steering committee discussions.

Requirements

  • Deep technical background with the ability to evaluate architecture proposals and make tradeoff decisions.
  • Experience leading large engineering organizations through platform consolidations, migrations, or major platform evolution.
  • Experience with at least two of: LLM-based agent systems and orchestration, evaluation/eval-infrastructure design, large-scale retrieval or search systems, or speech/voice ML systems and production voice infrastructure.
  • Experience managing managers, not just individual contributors.
  • Track record of building strong, adaptable teams that can handle restructuring and shifting priorities without losing momentum.
  • Ability to work closely with senior architects, product leadership, and cross-functional partners.
  • Comfort making technically critical decisions in a highly visible leadership environment.
  • Willingness to work from the North Americas or EMEA, with overlap in Eastern North America or Central European time zones.
  • Preferred: experience with applied ML research and infrastructure at scale.
  • Preferred: experience with code quality and testing practices in teams using AI-assisted development.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $281,196 to $401,709 USD.
  • Equity.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six-month paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • Paid flexible holidays and paid sick leave.

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