Data Scientist, Spotify
Growth Analytics, Performance Marketing
$110-157.2k
Plus equity
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$110-157.2k
Plus equity
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
- 3+ years synthesizing insights from data using tools such as Python/R and SQL
- Hands-on experience supporting marketing organizations with their paid media strategy, including running and analyzing incrementality tests on platforms like Meta, Google and TikTok
- Proven experience building advanced models to understand and optimise paid media campaigns
- Skilled at collaborating with business partners to measure the impact of marketing initiatives and presenting those findings in coherent recommendations
- Intellectually curious, creative, and diligent - you enjoy thinking about the business as much as about the data
- Have a background in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or other relevant field
- Comfortable working on a globally distributed team (with occasional international travel)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Business Analytics team at Spotify. In this role, you’ll shape Spotify’s performance marketing and growth strategy by developing models, designing experiments and measuring the impact of marketing investments
- Partnering with the Growth Analytics Lead, you’ll turn data into strategies that guide budget allocation, optimize spend and accelerate efficient growth across paid media channels
- You’ll collaborate with a global, cross-functional team of analysts, data scientists, marketers, business leaders, and engineers to scale insights and drive efficient growth. Learning and improving is part of our daily routine, and you will get a platform to develop your data skills and carve out efficient ways of working
- The Business Analytics team is part of Spotify’s core business strategy organization. You’ll play a crucial role in the growth and direction of Spotify as we grow to 700M+ users around the globe
- At your fingertips, you’ll have access to all of the data Spotify has to offer, and the opportunity to be creative with how you use it to derive insights and strategies. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences audio!
- Develop data-driven strategies to drive the growth of Spotify users and subscribers, with a focus on performance marketing
- Refine attribution practices and define robust, data-backed methods to measure the incremental impact of marketing spend
- Partner with third-party advertising platforms and agencies to design and implement comprehensive experiments and lift studies
- Contribute to annual and quarterly planning through impact forecasting, budget allocation and scenario modelling
- Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to track marketing efficiency and Global business performance
- Collaborate closely with business partners to understand growth drivers and guide strategic marketing decisions
- Present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders, influencing the course of our business
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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.
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