Senior Data Scientist, Spotify
Learning
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You believe that Spotify can truly create an impact in the learning space and have a point of view on that
- You care end to end about the product, the implementation, the design, the creators, the business, and you are ready to wear multiple hats to achieve your goals
- You have experience in a data science role in a related field and expertise in science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or similar quantitative subject area
- You have experience with business intelligence, product analytics and complex data-driven decision making
- You have broad experience performing analysis with large datasets and strong understanding of experimentation, statistics and machine learning for decision making
- You value cross-disciplinary work and understand how to match qualitative research with your quantitative analysis
- You take pride in your ability to identify and solve complex, unfamiliar problems, and present them to the rest of the team
- You have a growth mindset, are curious and not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
- You have excellent skills across the data science stack including Python, SQL and visualization tools (we primarily use Jupyter notebooks, BigQuery and Tableau)
What the job involves
- We are looking for an entrepreneurial and business minded senior data scientist to join the band to help explore and execute on learning as a new opportunity for Spotify
- It is a phenomenal role for someone who wants to work on a truly 0 to 1 project and have an impact on the company's growth trajectory!
- As a data scientist in this team you’d partner with the full cross-functional team to help with research, data modeling and data-informed decision making related to building the product and driving impact for users, creators and the business
- This is a fantastic opportunity to join our fast-paced team where you’ll get the chance to wear multiple hats and contribute to the product research and business analytics efforts to help craft and execute the product roadmap
- Help build out the insights foundations that will allow us to gather conclusive evidence on the trajectory and viability of learning as an opportunity for Spotify
- This includes instrumentation all the way through to analysis as well as understanding the learning space from multiple angles such as user, UX, content, marketing, creator and business perspectives to help inform decision making
- Develop business intelligence-, growth model- and product metrics framework
- Perform analysis on large sets of internal data to extract practical insights that will help drive product, platform and business decisions
- Design and conduct A/B tests to generate insights and drive impact across the entire learning product
- Build dashboards, data pipelines, and recurring reporting results, empowering business and product decision making
- Develop models which power on- and off-platform promotion of learning based content
- Help develop interest graph and content demand models for the content powering ML recommendations for users
- Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key partners
- Work closely and embedded with cross-functional team including engineering, product, design and business decision makers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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