What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist - Strategy Analytics position at Spotify?
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Strategy Analytics team at Spotify. You will work with the Associate Director of Strategy Analytics 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, 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!
\n- 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
- Present your findings to senior collaborators, influencing the course of our business
- 4 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
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $125,735-157,169 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.
