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Spotify Design Jobs (NOW HIRING)

You'll own design quality and cohesion across a set of features in Spotify's advertiser-facing tools, working on high-priority areas including campaign creation, audience targeting, reporting ...

Build and evolve ad experiences that allow millions of listeners to enjoy Spotify for free * Collaborate with engineers across Android, iOS, backend, and web, along with product, design, and data ...

Data Scientist

New York, NY · On-site

$108K - $135K/yr

The Podcast & Video Analytics team sits within Spotify's Content Analytics organisation and ... Design measurement frameworks using causal inference, experimentation, and modelling to quantify ...

Director of Sales - Backstage

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$242.53 - $346.48/hr

Design scalable sales processes, onboarding programs, and playbooks as the business grows * Represent Spotify externally at industry events, conferences, and key customer engagements Who You Are

Android Engineer - Advertising

New York, NY · On-site +1

$107K - $153K/yr

Build and evolve ad experiences that allow millions of listeners to enjoy Spotify for free * Collaborate with engineers across Android, iOS, backend, and web, along with product, design, and data ...

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How much do spotify design jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 14, 2026, the average hourly pay for spotify design in the United States is $55.42, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $49.04 and $64.90 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Spotify Design?

A Spotify Design job involves creating user-centric experiences across Spotify's platform, including app interfaces, branding, and marketing materials. Designers collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product teams to craft intuitive and engaging experiences for millions of users. Roles may include UX/UI design, visual design, and design systems development. The goal is to maintain Spotify’s unique aesthetic while improving usability and accessibility.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Spotify Design position, and why are they important?

To thrive in a Spotify Design role, you need a strong background in user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design, typically with a degree in design or a related field and a robust portfolio of digital work. Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping software is essential, and experience with design systems is highly valued. Excellent collaboration, creative problem-solving, and communication skills help designers work effectively within cross-functional teams. These competencies enable designers to create cohesive, innovative, and user-friendly experiences that align with Spotify’s brand and product goals.

How does the Spotify Design team typically collaborate with engineers and product managers?

The Spotify Design team works closely with engineers and product managers throughout the entire product development lifecycle. Designers often participate in brainstorming sessions, define user flows, and create prototypes that engineers use to build features while product managers ensure alignment with strategic goals. This collaboration is usually facilitated through agile, cross-functional squads, where regular meetings and feedback loops keep everyone aligned. Such a structure ensures all perspectives are considered, fostering innovation and delivering a seamless listening experience for users.

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Infographic showing various Spotify Design job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 88% Full Time, 6% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 84% Physical, 5% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $115,273 per year, or $55.4 per hour.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Surfaces Moments

Spotify

New York, NY • On-site, Remote

$184K - $262K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 27 days ago


Job description

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we're behind some of Spotify's most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you'll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.

Surfaces Moments is a ML team within the Personalization Mission focused on creating moment-based experiences across Spotify surfaces. The team owns and evolves the experiences that help listeners quickly connect with the content that matters most to them, including the Home Shortcuts experience and the underlying intelligence that powers it. By combining cutting-edge machine learning, recommendation systems, and product thinking, the team delivers highly relevant, personalized experiences to millions of listeners around the world.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will help shape the future of personalized discovery and engagement at Spotify. You'll work at the intersection of recommendation systems, large language models, and production-scale machine learning infrastructure to build experiences that delight users and drive meaningful impact. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys taking models from research to production, collaborating across disciplines, and solving complex personalization challenges at global scale.

What You'll Do
  • Own and improve the machine learning models and systems that power the Home feed, including the Shortcuts experience.
  • Design, build, and ship personalized recommendations that serve millions of Spotify listeners globally.
  • Build content recommendation systems for emerging agentic and AI-powered user experiences.
  • Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize large language models using techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT), distillation, and parameter-efficient training approaches.
  • Partner closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to define and execute experimentation strategies.
  • Drive A/B testing, monitoring, model evaluation, and continuous optimization of recommendation quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Improve ML platform capabilities, data pipelines, and production systems that support personalization at Spotify scale.
Who You Are
  • You have 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
  • You have deep expertise in recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms.
  • You have strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building machine learning systems with PyTorch.
  • You are experienced with large language model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization techniques including SFT, distillation, and LoRA.
  • You have worked with large-scale inference systems and understand the challenges of latency, reliability, and cost optimization.
  • You care deeply about creating high-quality user experiences through thoughtful application of machine learning.
  • You communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences and enjoy working in highly collaborative environments.
  • You know how to design, execute, and interpret online experiments and A/B tests to improve user outcomes.
  • You have experience operating distributed machine learning workloads using technologies such as Ray, FSDP, HSDP, or similar frameworks.
  • You are experienced building and maintaining data pipelines and orchestration workflows using technologies such as Flyte, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-based storage platforms.
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 region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $184,050 $262,928 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, 13 paid flexible holidays, 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.
 
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