Director of ML Engineering, Conversation Product Area at Spotify
Stockholm
$281,196–$401,709from the description
Aug 5, 2026
Stockholm
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Director of Engineering role leading Spotify's Conversation Product Area — a roughly 70-person org spanning the shared Agent Engine, evaluation infrastructure, Search Brain, and the Speak voice platform. The director sets technical strategy and architectural direction for company-wide agentic infrastructure, manages a layer of Senior Engineering Managers and Staff/Principal engineers, and co-leads the product area in a paired product/engineering model.
Principal level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Location is fully flexible within North Americas or EMEA regions where Spotify has a work location; the posted USD compensation range applies to US-based candidates. No single CBSA is applicable.
The posting lists no minimum years of overall experience — seniority is inferred from the scope: managing ~70 engineers through a layer of Senior EMs and Staff/Principal ICs, owning company-wide architectural decisions, and driving a major platform consolidation.
The five technical skill areas (LLM-based agent systems, evaluation infrastructure, large-scale search, speech/voice ML) are framed as 'experience with at least two of' — none is individually required, so all are marked preferred. They are genuine technical domain signals, not generic concepts.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the posting emphasizes deep personal technical contribution alongside people management; however, the primary day-to-day work is clearly running a large engineering organization, making 11-3021 the right primary code.
Compensation is stated as base range only; equity is mentioned but not quantified.
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