Engineering Manager, Music Mission at spotify

spotify

New York, NY·1w ago

ManagerFull-timeRustData ScienceAgileAIML

Salary Range

$163,200 - $220,800 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Native Ads team in the Music Mission at Spotify. In Native Ads, we build consumer and industry-facing music promotion products that provide creators new avenues for promoting their work, reaching new audiences, and deepening their connections with fans. You will play an integral role in shaping the future of Native Ads products, technology, and business.

Key Responsibilities

→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
→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 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
→Grow people and the team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, process, and continuous improvement efforts

Requirements

✓Strong background in statistics/ML/AI technologies and their application to consumer products
✓Experience balancing developing thriving engineers and helping teams achieve significant business impact
✓Ability to thrive in ambiguity, balancing tech health with speed of impact and learning
✓Strong product intuition to connect the dots between multiple systems at Spotify
✓Experience or strong interest in emerging agent technologies and generative recommender systems
✓Understanding of the challenges of deploying and monitoring models in production
✓Knowledge of Ads systems is a plus