Spotify

Engineering Manager, Music

Spotify

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $164,448 - $234,926 per year

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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 that 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.
Benefits
  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcoachingmentoringfeedbackcontinuous improvementadaptabilityproblem-solvingcommunicationteam building