Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Content Platform

London

Experience

Permanent

About the Role

At Spotify in the Entertainment space, Unlock human creativity and connect billions to the world's greatest music.

We design Spotify's consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

You'll lead a senior-heavy group of 10–12 machine learning engineers, including Staff engineers, who team up dynamically to solve high-priority business problems while staying deep in content understanding (audio, video and text). This is a player-coach role with a strong strategic remit: you'll shape where the group goes next, grow our audio understanding expertise over the long term, and help the team scale through thoughtful, practical use of AI in everyday engineering work.

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Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creators the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service that has over 10 million creators with almost half a billion fans across 184 countries and markets.

Please review the specific job listing or contact Spotify's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Spotify is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Health & Wellness, Family & Time Off, Financial & Equity, Work Experience. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Creative Courage and Band Mentality Collaboration and Sincere Connection.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Foster a Culture of Trust and Transparency and Empower Creative Innovation and Bold Risk-Taking.

Spotify has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Spotify currently has 90 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Platform, Automation and Agency Teams, Music Business. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/spotify/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Spotify's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.