Engineering Manager - Experimentation

Spotify is hiring an Engineering Manager - Experimentation in Stockholm, Sweden. Level rates it ; you can apply on Spotify.

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AI in this role

Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" is at the core of Spotify's product development approach. In the Experimentation product area we are providing Spotify and external customers with Confidence, our platform to quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them and make informed decisions for better products. At Spotify, experimentation touches almost all of our functions from marketing via content management to consumer products, and we’re running several thousands of tests every year. Through confidence, we 're sharing all our findings and practices with more companies as a commercial SaaS product. The team you will manage is a skilled and highly engaged group of engineers that are distributed over Europe. As an Engineering manager, you coach them individually and as a team, maintaining their strong team culture and helping them thrive and and grow. Your technical experience provides mentorship and guidelines to the team, which ensures quality and timeliness of your deliveries. Your leadership promotes creativity, collaboration and courage, which forms a kind and productive team with a high bar for quality and pace of delivery.

What You'll Do

You will hire, coach and develop the careers of a team of engineers
You will be responsible for high-quality deliveries
You will partner with product managers to support with prioritizations and product visions
You will support the engineering team and work with Staff engineers to formulate the technical strategy needed to deliver on our vision
You will do hands on engineering work from time to time
In the end, your primary goal is to support a highly effective engineering team delivering an amazing product

Who You Are

You thrive when developing great people, not just great products and cultivating a strong engineering culture in an agile environment
You are skilled in collaborating on and developing distributed systems that can scale to millions of users.
You have experience with data warehouses and data processing at scale
You have worked on commercial SaaS products in the past and have hands on experience taking features from zero to one
You are a brave learner and see unfamiliar territories as an opportunity to grow.
You are a senior individual contributor (or has been) with strong people skills and leadership experience
You’re passionate about software engineering best practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems
You care deeply about quality of the products your working and, and hold people to a high standard
Naturally, you harness AI as a tool that helps you be more effective at your work

Where You'll Be

Based in Stockholm, Sweden
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 3 times per week.

How we rate this

Engineering Manager - Experimentation at Spotify rates 34 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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