Director of ML Engineering - Conversation Product Area

• You are deeply technical, not tech-adjacent. This PA's defining work (a new shared agent runtime and harness, a scaled evaluation system, a voice/speech stack) requires a Director who can evaluate architecture proposals, hold their own in a room with senior ICs, contribute technically in meaningful ways, and make tough tiebreaking and tradeoff calls.
• You have run large engineering orgs through platform consolidations, migrations, or evolutions, and you’ve had to earn trust by building highly scaled and functional platform technology.
• You have experience with at least two of: LLM-based agent systems and orchestration, evaluation/eval-infrastructure design (including automated judges and regression suites), large-scale retrieval or search systems, or speech/voice ML systems and production voice infrastructure.
• You've managed managers, not just individual contributors. You know how to build a management structure that scales.
• You have a track record of building strong but nimble teams, with experience restructuring, shifting team resourcing, adjusting to fast changing priorities or shifting needs without losing delivery momentum.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas or EMEA region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates primarily within the Eastern North America and Central European time zones for collaboration, so we ask that you be located within a time zone that enables regular overlap with the team.

The United States base range for this position is $281,196 – $401,709 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know – we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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