Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY · Personalization

Director of Machine Learning Engineering for Spotify's Surfaces Foundation team, focusing on personalized recommendation systems that power hundreds of millions of listeners. The role involves leading a group that shapes AI-driven recommendations across all Spotify surfaces, balancing ML infrastructure with product experience and enabling other teams to move faster.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a group shaping how AI-driven recommendations evolve across every Spotify surface
  2. Help teams move faster while keeping a strong, shared foundation
  3. Oversee the systems that power how personalized recommendations show up for hundreds of millions of listeners
  4. Drive the strategy and execution for recommendation systems, from targeting and configuration to serving and evaluation

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning Engineering leadership
  • Recommendation Systems
  • ML Infrastructure
  • Product Strategy
  • Team Management

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale consumer products
  • Cross-functional collaboration

What the JD emphasized

  • lead a group shaping how AI-driven recommendations evolve
  • strong, shared foundation

Other signals

  • leading ML teams
  • recommendation systems
  • ML infrastructure
  • product experience