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# Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Personalization at Spotify

- **Company:** Spotify
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/aca5697a-a87a-415e-8d58-627bb782cce8

## Job description

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.

You'll join the Saturn squad within Sessions, part of Spotify's Personalization Mission. The team is focused on training and improving the machine learning models that rank and personalize some of Spotify's most-loved listening experiences, including Radio and Daily Mix. As part of Personalization's broader strategy, the team is also helping shape the future of generative recommendations by developing and adopting new approaches that leverage large language models, including fine-tuning models to improve the quality, relevance, and personalization of our playlists. As the Engineering Manager, you'll lead a talented team of machine learning, backend and data engineers while providing both technical direction and people leadership, helping the team deliver innovative ML capabilities that reach millions of listeners every day.

## What You'll Do

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of machine learning engineers, creating an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
- Set the technical direction for the team while partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering leaders to deliver impactful machine learning capabilities.
- Guide the design, development, deployment, and operation of production machine learning systems at scale.
- Support engineers through technical mentorship, career development, performance management, and regular feedback.
- Drive execution by helping the team prioritize work, remove obstacles, and continuously improve delivery.
- Foster engineering excellence through modern software engineering practices, experimentation, and operational excellence.
- Partner across squads and missions to influence technical strategy and ensure alignment across the Personalization organization.
- Champion thoughtful adoption of emerging machine learning technologies, including large language models, where they create meaningful user value.

## Who You Are

- You have experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
- You have built trust through coaching, mentoring, and supporting engineers in their career growth.
- You have deep expertise building and operating production machine learning systems at scale.
- You understand the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from experimentation through deployment and monitoring.
- You are experienced working with modern machine learning techniques, including large language models and generative AI applications.
- You communicate effectively across engineering, product, and data science partners.
- You care about building inclusive teams where collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning thrive.
- You balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision-making and delivering meaningful business outcomes.

Where You'll Be We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Eastern Standard time zone.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

## About Spotify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, connecting users to over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 700,000 audiobooks across 184 markets.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SPOT)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Audio streaming and digital media
- Target customers: B2C (consumers via Free and Premium tiers) and B2B (advertisers, artists, and labels through Spotify Advertising and Spotify for Artists)
- Mission: "To deliver creativity to the world—one note, one voice, one idea at a time."

## Products & Services
- **Spotify Free**: Ad-supported streaming of music, podcasts, and audiobooks
- **Spotify Premium**: Subscription tier with offline mode, improved sound quality, and ad-free listening
- **Spotify for Artists**: Analytics, promotion, and monetization tools for creators
- **Spotify Advertising**: Programmatic and self-serve ad platform for brands
- **Audiobooks**: Catalog of 700,000+ audiobook titles (market entry in 2022)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources; stock price reported at USD 391.23 (as of 2024-10-29)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue EUR 17.2B; 777 million monthly users including 300 million subscribers (per Spotify Newsroom). Note: LinkedIn company data lists 365M users/165M subscribers — conflicting reports, likely reflecting an older snapshot.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A of USD 21.6M with 5 investors (2008); debt financing of USD 1.0B (2016); convertible notes in 2016 and 2021. Key acquisitions include Sonantic (2022), Mediachain (2017), and Tunigo (2013).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +14.2% YoY to 8,921 employees; 9 offices across 4 countries; expansion into audiobooks; 300M+ paying subscribers.

## Competitive Advantages
- Scale: largest audio streaming subscriber base globally
- Data and AI personalization: mature recommendation engines and AI-driven discovery
- Multi-format audio ecosystem: music, podcasts, and audiobooks in a single app
- Strong brand recognition and deep creator relationships

## Strategic Focus
- AI-powered personalization and generative audio tools
- Audiobook market expansion
- Podcast ecosystem growth
- Creator monetization and artist tools

## Why Work Here
- Employer rating 4.0/5.0 from 2,155 reviews (Work-Life: 4.2, Compensation: 3.9, Culture: 4.0, Career: 3.5)
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