Analytics Engineer - Freemium

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.
We are looking for an Analytics Engineer who will help us build out a top class analytics ecosystem so that data scientists in Freemium are empowered to focus on gathering insights, building impactful visualisations, and crafting predictive models.

What You'll Do

• Work with data scientists across the Freemium mission to identify areas of opportunity, and create novel datasets and tools that will be used for years to come
• Evaluate the data quality and performance of our existing pipelines and use these analyses to make meaningful improvements and collaborate with data scientists to build robust pipelines that incorporate best practices
• Evangelise data engineering best practices among all data producers within freemium
• Work with development teams to ensure features launch suitably instrumented and monitored

Who You Are

• You have a track record of working in the analytics space and have experience with building robust data models for analytics purposes, efficient data warehouse design and an understanding of data quality
• You value the use of data and visualisations to tell the story behind the data and level up the future development of our products through these insights
• You understand how Data Scientists work, how they generate insights from data and how to make their lives easier
• You have a masterful understanding of SQL and excellent programming skills (e.g. Python)
• You have experience using git to facilitate effective collaboration between dataset producers
• You are able to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity, with only high-level direction
• You know how to understand and tackle loosely defined problems and come up with relevant answers and useful insights
• You have strong communication skills and experience working across multiple teams

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 EMEA 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 Central European time zone for collaboration
• We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours 

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.
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