Data Scientist - Consumer Business Development

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. 
We are looking for a Data Scientist who is passionate about driving long-term value for Spotify. You will draw insights from our partnerships, analyzing how our users discover and engage with audio content. You will be a key decision maker on a highly cross-functional team, and on the day-to-day define measures of success, run and measure experiments, and make data-driven recommendations that craft how we approach and optimize our integrations. You have strong metric & tracking implementation, experimentation, and data visualization experience as well as excellent communication skills to build and manage relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative partnerships with some of the world’s largest companies and help develop the future of Spotify’s partner integrations.

What you'll do

• Analyze large sets of data, leading foundational analyses to develop deeper understanding of our users and product behavior
• Assess partnerships with data-driven analyses and proactively develop recommendations for internal and external product & marketing teams
• Support various business teams in evaluating future initiatives based on historical performance data from existing partnerships
• Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to facilitate business performance tracking
• Work in cross-functional teams to identify ideal testing opportunities, set up and measure product tests, and develop & communicate strategic recommendations

Who you are

• You lean towards the business end of Data Science and are comfortable analyzing emerging projects. You are comfortable marrying data and intuition to glean insights and recommendations and distill the “so what”
• You enjoy building and maintaining working partnerships as this is a high-visibility role with touchpoints across departments across the company
• Comfortable performing analysis with large datasets (SQL), and using programming languages for analytics (Pandas, R, SPSS). Experience visualizing data and/or building dashboards (Tableau, Qlik Sense, matplotlib, ggplot2 or similar)
• You have excellent interpersonal skills with both technical and business audiences and are able to work in an often-changing, collaborative environment
• Strong eye for business, curiosity about partner-facing strategic work, and attention to detail
• You have experience designing, assessing and analyzing A/B tests or other methods of causal inference

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours
• You will operate within the Central European time zone and have colleagues in both the APAC and Americas regions
• Prefer an office to work from instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here

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 with a community of more than 345 million users.