Senior Data Scientist Growth at Spotify

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify. 

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Insights team to support strategic decision-making for user growth in all markets around the world.


What You'll Do

Work closely with other data scientists, user researchers, product managers, designers, and engineers
Establish learning agendas, measurement plans and success metrics in close coordination with contributing teams and partners
Analyze large quantities of data to extract impactful insights to help inform senior leadership and drive strategic, product and business decisions
Design and facilitate experimentation both on and off platform
Communicate insights and recommendations through clear visualizations and presentations



Who You Are

5+ years of experience in a data scientist role and a degree in data science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or similar quantitative field
Possess the technical competence to perform analytics on very large datasets, including coding skills (such as Python or R) and databases (such as SQL)
Statistical competence in areas such as A/B testing, causal inference, regression modeling etc
Familiar with qualitative research methods, using data from interviews, surveys and co-creation activities to synthesize with quantitative data
Eye for business with ability to deliver on loosely defined problems to assess research questions and come up with relevant answers and actionable insights to guide decisions
You are a communicative person that values building strong relationships with colleagues and partners and have the ability to explain complex topics in simple terms



Where You'll Be

We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern/NY time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone
Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here



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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.