Data Scientist - Podcast Monetization
New York, NY
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Spotify
We grow and develop and make wonderful things happen together every day. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, what you look like, or what music you love. Join the band!
We work at the intersection of advertising and messaging technologies to connect millions of brands to billions of fans. As part of the Advertising team, we’re paving the way for a sustainable global Spotify business that allows even more creators to make a living off their art. Come join us and help build the platform that powers promotion at Spotify.
A rarity in digital media, podcast advertising gets results for advertisers, allows creators to profit and (when done well) entertains listeners. Spotify — through its growing ads business and ongoing investment in original audio content — has the outstanding opportunity to amplify and scale what’s great about podcast ads by building the first truly digital podcast ad experience.
Our team is looking for a data scientist to join the band and help us define, build, and forecast our audience-based podcast ad offerings. This role will sit directly with our forecasting & analytics squad, partnering with our product manager to guide our roadmap and our engineers to launch new analytics offerings.
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 with a community of more than 345 million users.
A rarity in digital media, podcast advertising gets results for advertisers, allows creators to profit and (when done well) entertains listeners. Spotify — through its growing ads business and ongoing investment in original audio content — has the outstanding opportunity to amplify and scale what’s great about podcast ads by building the first truly digital podcast ad experience.
Our team is looking for a data scientist to join the band and help us define, build, and forecast our audience-based podcast ad offerings. This role will sit directly with our forecasting & analytics squad, partnering with our product manager to guide our roadmap and our engineers to launch new analytics offerings.
What You'll Do
- Explore podcast and audience data to answer key questions on the future of podcast ad targeting
- Conceptualize approaches and evaluate models for forecasting podcast ad inventory
- Propose changes to our product roadmap based on quantitative insights
- Perform analysis on large sets of data to extract impactful insights that will help drive product decisions
- Contribute to the development of the Product Insights function and the wider data science community at Spotify
Who You Are
- You know how to understand and solve loosely defined problems and come up with relevant answers to guide product development decisions
- You have a deep understanding of numbers, as well as a strong business sense (preferably within advertising)
- You have 4+ years of proven experience, with a degree in computer science, statistics, or mathematics or another quantitative field
- You have familiarity with developing statistical or machine learning-based forecasting methods from ideation to implementation and deployment
- You have the technical competence to perform analytics: wrangling and querying data (SQL), coding skills (such as Python, Java, or Scala), experience with analytics & visualization libraries (pandas, tidyverse, seaborn, ggplot), visualization tools (Tableau, and experience performing analysis with large datasets
- You possess statistical competence (such as regression modeling, a/b testing, significance testing etc)
- You're an effective communicator: stellar communication skills with the ability to distill sophisticated thoughts and strategies into simple, impactful recommendations
Where You'll Be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
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 with a community of more than 345 million users.
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