Staff Research Engineer - Music
Spotify
Experience training or fine-tuning large ML models on GPUs; proficient in PyTorch; cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure); strong debugging, collaboration, and production integration skills.
Spotify
Full-time
Hybrid • São Paulo, Brazil (Hybrid)
As a part of the Artist & Label Partnerships team, you’ll work with key artists, managers and labels to advocate, educate and innovate, unlocking opportunities such as campaigns, music programs and critical initiatives. You will also leverage this relationship to further Spotify’s marketing and partnership initiatives to the mutual benefit of Spotify and its industry partners.
This position reports to the Head of Music in Brazil.
What You'll Do
• Represent Spotify Artist and Label Partnerships department externally, attending meetings with the industry, including label partners, managers and artists to identify opportunities and foster partnerships
• Campaign planning, relationship building, and cross-functional process execution
• Internal reports, project tracking and pipeline management
• Track, review, and evaluate artist and label priorities, as well as culturally relevant moments, and identify in collaboration with a cross-functional team those artists that Spotify will support in on and off platform promotions
• Work directly with the artists, their label and their management teams to gather insights and develop priority campaigns, from brief development, conception, production all the way through execution
• Develop relationships, collaborate and advocate with internal team members
• Educate artist and label partners on Spotify for Artists and the platform, initiating opportunities for educational programs
• Educational/networking/ fans engagement events production (guestlists, giveaways, etc…)
• Observe and share cultural trends and music movements insights from young music fandoms
Who You Are
• You have 3+ years of experience building marketing campaigns and managing multiple top priority projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in English is required. Spanish is a "nice to have".
• Understanding of the music industry and experience including label and management.
• You have an exceptional ability to build and maintain relationships.
• You are an open, transparent and clear communicator.
• You have the ability to interpret data & insights to communicate the business purpose and results of campaigns & strategic initiatives
• You are well organized and strive in operational excellence, with the ability to plan and deliver on tight deadlines and pay exceptional attention to detail
• You are organized and deals well with processes, guidelines and tasks management
• You are comfortable in very fast paced, intense work environments and thrive on a team that moves quickly
• An optimistic-minded, self-starter with an entrepreneurial attitude and knack for problem solving
• Able to easily adapt and learn new skill sets as circumstances require
• Above all, you are a passionate music fan who is in tune to various genres and cultures of music
Where You'll Be
• This role is based in Sao Paolo
• We offer you the flexibility to work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 2-3 times per week.
Spotify
Experience training or fine-tuning large ML models on GPUs; proficient in PyTorch; cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure); strong debugging, collaboration, and production integration skills.
Spotify
Experience training or fine-tuning large ML models on GPUs using PyTorch; cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure); debugging ML training code; strong communication; proactive, fast learner.
Spotify
Senior staff-level research engineer with experience training/fine-tuning large ML models on GPUs using PyTorch; cloud platform experience; strong collaboration and communication across global teams; able to deploy models to production.

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