We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Strategy Analytics team at Spotify to evaluate and influence our global Freemium strategy. You will collaborate with a distributed team of world-class analysts, data scientists, business leaders, and engineers. Learning and improving is part of our daily routine, and you will be free to develop your skills and ways of working.
The Strategy Analytics team is part of Spotify’s core business strategy and insights organization. You’ll play a crucial role in the growth and direction of Spotify as we grow to 600M+ users around the globe and monetize the product at scale. 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. You will partner with data scientists, market researchers, business strategists and other insights practitioners to evaluate and explore monetization strategies that drive revenue for the business. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music, podcasts, and audiobooks!
What You’ll Do
- Develop data-driven strategies to drive the growth of Spotify users, subscribers, and profit
- Create and communicate impactful recommendations and models that improve the Premium product
- Analyze and forecast the impact of price changes and new business initiatives
- Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to facilitate business performance tracking
- Work closely with business partners to understand the change they are driving and help them discover new opportunities for growth
- Design and implement comprehensive tests, making sure that we track all relevant metrics and that we’re learning at every step along the way.
- Present your findings to senior collaborators, influencing the course of our business
Who You Are
- 2+ years of professional experience synthesizing insights from data using tools such as Python/R, SQL. Experience with distributed systems (Redshift, Hadoop, BigQuery) is a plus
- Intellectually curious, creative, and diligent - you enjoy thinking about the business as much as the data!
- Have experience collaborating with partners to measure the impact of business/marketing initiatives and presenting those findings in coherent recommendations
- Have a background in Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or a relevant field
- Comfortable working on a globally distributed team (with occasional international travel)
- Relevant experience in a consumer tech/product company is a plus
Where You’ll Be
- This role will be onsite at our New York Office
The United States base range for this position is $86,691 to $123,844, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
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.
