💼 About This Role

You'll lead a group shaping how AI-driven recommendations evolve across every Spotify surface, helping teams move faster while keeping a strong, shared foundation. You'll manage engineering managers and set the technical vision for personalized recommendation systems serving hundreds of millions of listeners. This role sits at the intersection of ML infrastructure and product experience.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Lead engineering managers building platform systems for recommendations
• Set technical vision for targeting, serving, evaluation, and agent-driven systems
• Guide incremental platform evolution enabling continuous delivery
• Partner with product, data science, and engineering leaders to align priorities

📋 Requirements

• Experience building and operating machine learning systems at scale in consumer-facing products
• Worked on recommendation systems, ranking, or content delivery platforms
• Strong platform thinking deciding when to build shared capabilities
• Comfortable with modern AI tools and their influence on software development

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience leading teams through adoption of new technologies
• Collaboration across disciplines and team alignment
• Investment in inclusive team environments

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Flexible remote work within EMEA region
• 💻 Modern AI-assisted development tools
• 🌍 Central European and GMT time zone collaboration
• 🏢 Permanent contract
• 📈 Opportunity to shape ML infrastructure

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min