Senior Data Scientist, Learning Full Time

Spotify

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

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).

Where You’ll Be

• The team is distributed across the CET region with most people located in Stockholm and London.