About the Role
This Senior Engineering Manager role focuses on the architecture and evolution of Spotify's agent-powered features, sitting at the intersection of production systems engineering, LLM infrastructure, evaluation science, and applied research. You will act as a senior individual contributor with significant architectural authority, partnering with a cross-functional team to define the technical strategy for building, evaluating, and scaling Spotify's agents, and driving the consolidation of agent implementations onto a single engine.
Responsibilities
- Be accountable for teams building Spotify Agentic Experience delivering new and innovative products.
- Develop a generative AI tech strategy to keep Spotify at the forefront of innovation.
- Provide servant leadership to several teams working across research, machine learning, engineering management, backend engineers, and data specialists.
- Advocate for and increase knowledge of advanced Gen AI capabilities across the company.
- Cultivate a balanced, collaborative engineering culture and a diverse and inclusive team.
- Directly manage ~5-10 people.
- Collaborate with a product lead to define strategy, success metrics and roadmaps.
- Influence the technical design and architecture of the Conversation team’s stack.
- Influence the Personalization team’s research and roadmap.
- Collaborate with leaders throughout the company to plan and execute impactful initiatives requiring many teams.
Requirements
- Significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies and their application to high scale consumer products.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a modern generative AI team to incorporate generative AI into consumer facing products, continuously making the models better for users while optimizing performance and cost.
- Practices servant leadership, has strong mentorship and coaching skills, and thrives when helping individuals and teams perform to their full potential.
- Enjoys facilitating collaboration among several teams, developing and growing teams and their leaders while driving delivery.
- Able to distill complex information into easy-to-understand concepts.
- Understands how to lead a team through ambiguity.
- Thrives when bringing research to market as amazing products for users.
Skills
- Generative AI
- LLM orchestration
- Agent frameworks
- Production systems engineering
- Machine learning
- Backend engineering
- Data specialization
- Mentorship
- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Team development
- Technical strategy
- Architecture
Location
- EMEA region
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Spotify’s Personalization team is building the next generation of intelligent listening experiences.
- Generative AI is transforming Spotify's product capabilities and technical architecture.
- Agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, and agentic reasoning present huge opportunities for our products to serve more user needs and use cases, and to unlock richer, more dynamic relationships between listeners and the things they love.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
