Senior Data Scientist, Spotify
Advertising
$143-204.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$143-204.3k
+ 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 5 or more years of experience in a similar data science role and a degree in economics, statistics, or similar quantitative subject areas
- You are comfortable building and maintaining large, complex datasets
- You have the technical competence to perform more advanced analytics using your coding skills for analytics and data extraction (such as SQL, Python, R)
- You have experience in causal inference and experimental design
- Broad knowledge of ML methods, statistical analysis, and problem-solving skills
- You have experience taking a project idea and bringing it to life through self-driven scoping, planning, and stakeholder communication
- You have built statistical models with proven business impact
- You can explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders and conduct nuanced discussions with engineers
- Ability to collaborate with DEs, MLEs, and Research Scientists
- Experience with LLMs
- Bonus if you have experience analyzing ad creatives or ad tech
What the job involves
- The Ads Business Data Science & Research team is seeking a senior-level data scientist to help build and maintain data pipelines, data science, and ML-based solutions focused on driving advertiser and revenue growth in Spotify Advertising
- One of your key focuses will be supporting the adoption and implementation of generative AI and ML models built to unlock ad creative insights on a global scale
- You will work alongside Engineers, Research Economists, and business analysts by leading creative insights from a Data Science perspective
- As part of the Advertising Business team, you’ll work on the latest advertising technologies to connect millions of brands to billions of fans
- Partner with business partners to understand problems space and reframe them as data science solutions end-to-end
- Deliver challenging, large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity independently
- Write code (Python, R, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze large datasets
- Build statistical models and design experiments to solve applicable business problems
- Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key partners
- Work closely with a cross-functional team of economists, engineers, product owners, and business decisions makers
- Prioritize business solutions, regardless of product area
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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