Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

What You'll Do

• Lead and support engineering managers and their teams building platform systems for personalized recommendations across Spotify
• Set and evolve the technical vision for foundational capabilities, including targeting, serving, evaluation, and agent-driven systems
• Make thoughtful decisions about what should become platform capabilities, ensuring teams can move quickly without unnecessary complexity
• Guide incremental platform evolution, enabling continuous delivery rather than large, disruptive rewrites
• Partner closely with product, data science, and engineering leaders to align priorities across multiple squads
• Stay close to the technology when needed, contributing to architecture decisions and resolving complex production challenges
• Encourage adoption of AI-assisted development tools and shape how teams use them effectively in day-to-day work
• Hire, develop, and grow engineering leaders and individual contributors, building a strong and inclusive team culture