Data Scientist, Spotify
Trust and Safety
$126.9-181.2k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$126.9-181.2k
+ Equity
More information about location
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 have 4+ years of work experience leading high-profile projects that aim to solve analytical problems using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods
- You are skilled in the necessary analysis tools (SQL, R, Python) and have experience bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative data streams
- You are comfortable with planning, prioritizing, conducting, analyzing and communicating research including leading research streams in a 'Zero to One' space
- You are a self-driven team player with a strong sense of ownership and an ability to design and lead research projects independently
- You can educate and communicate convincingly, both to less experienced audiences as well as very experienced decision makers
- You deeply care about the translation of abstract research, or high-level calls to action into concrete methods, and practice. You are comfortable making concrete recommendations to teams, on the basis of solid research
- You are passionate about solving problems in the domain of trust & safety with direct product application
- You have validated expertise within responsible product innovation
What the job involves
- TSI proactively identifies, analyzes, and mitigates risks to Spotify and opportunities for the wider T&S organization.
- Our work empowers teams across Spotify to make product and policy decisions that promote creators’ opportunity to live off their art and fans’ opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it in a safe, equitable manner.
- This role will partner with other T&S teams to ensure product teams have the data and insights to enable faster, wider, and safer innovation.
- This includes measurement to inform product and market launches, foundational research to understand risks in emerging technologies, and product interventions to promote safety.
- We aim to help Spotify teams innovate responsible and identify opportunities to create safer experiences throughout the entirety of the product life cycle
- Deliver in-depth qualitative and quantitative research insights to inform high-impact, high-priority, and challenging problem spaces related to safety
- Develop custom longitudinal metrics for trust and safety, implement them, and demonstrate their efficacy
- Scope and execute other measurement and intervention projects that support T&S advocacy to R&D
- Effectively manage and prioritize research plans through ambiguous and fast-changing environments
- Leverage existing data to better unlock products by anticipating safety needs, studying potential/existing dynamics, and delivering outcomes to address trust/safety concerns
- Transform complex research data into intuitive, visually compelling, and actionable insights that influence decisions
- Significant cross-functional collaboration is expected. Your role will deeply influence the way that insights and data are operationalized and productionized at Spotify. You will work with a variety of teams, including product teams, policy stakeholders, researchers, data scientists, insights leaders, and engineers
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
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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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