[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager - ML

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spotify is a leading music streaming company, and they are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Systems to focus on the architecture and evolution of agent-powered features. This role involves significant architectural authority and collaboration with cross-functional teams to define technical strategies for building and scaling Spotify's agents.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for teams building Spotify Agentic Experience delivering new and innovative products at the heart of music, podcast and audiobooks users love
• Together with a wide range of collaborators, develop a generative AI tech strategy that keeps Spotify at the forefront of innovation in the field
• 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, including influencing the company’s most senior leaders
• Cultivate a balanced, collaborative engineering culture and a diverse and inclusive team that reflects our customers and our world
• 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

Skills

• Significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies and their application to high scale consumer products
• Demonstrated ability to lead a modern generative AI team (e.g. transformers, diffusion and other recent technologies) to incorporate generative AI into consumer facing products, continuously making the models better for users while optimizing performance and cost
• Practice servant leadership, have strong mentorship and coaching skills, and thrive when helping individuals and teams perform to their full potential
• Love 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, and understand how to lead a team through ambiguity
• Thrive when bringing research to market as amazing products for users

Company Overview

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, SWE, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.spotify.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Spotify has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 41 in 2026, 140 in 2025, 117 in 2024, 169 in 2023, 259 in 2022, 172 in 2021, 115 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.