Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

Job description

Spotify’s Surfaces Foundation team builds the systems that power how personalized recommendations show up for hundreds of millions of listeners. From targeting and configuration to serving and evaluation, this team sits at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure and product experience. 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. 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 resolvin...