Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

at Spotify · Consumer · London, United Kingdom +1 · Personalization

Director of Machine Learning Engineering for Spotify's Surfaces Foundation team, focusing on personalized recommendations for hundreds of millions of users. The role involves leading a team that shapes AI-driven recommendations across all Spotify surfaces, bridging ML infrastructure and product experience, and overseeing serving and evaluation systems.

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 systems for targeting, configuration, serving, and evaluation of recommendations

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning Engineering leadership
  • Experience with recommendation systems
  • Understanding of ML infrastructure
  • Experience with serving and evaluation of ML models

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale consumer products
  • Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation

Other signals

  • leading a team
  • shaping AI-driven recommendations
  • ML infrastructure
  • product experience
  • serving and evaluation
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Spotify’s Surfaces Foundation team builds the systems that power how personalized recommendations show up for hundreds of millions of listeners. From targeting and configuration to serving and evaluation, this team sits at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure and product experience. You’ll lead a group shaping how AI-driven recommendations evolve across every Spotify surface, helping teams move faster while keeping a strong, shared foundation.

What You'll Do

Who You Are

Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we havea work location
  • This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.