Data Scientist - Growth Strategy

Are you a talented data scientist who is eager to dig into the data here at Spotify, derive insights, and help us perfect our strategy for our future global growth?
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Growth & Business Intelligence team within the Freemium Business Unit. In the role, you will work along a team of data scientists, analysts, and strategists to analyse on-platform data, external data sources, and new consumer / user research to identify insights that leadership will use to craft and optimize Spotify’s user growth strategy.  Your analysis will help determine how we invest to grow our subscribers and monthly active users over the long term in many markets around the world.

What You'll Do

• Perform analyses on large global sets of data to extract impactful insights that will help our team and senior leadership understand the state of our user growth around the world and craft growth strategies to help us grow beyond 400 million users
• Partner closely with other teams to identify and assess fundamental performance drivers that underpin Spotify’s user growth
• Communicate insights and recommendations through clear visualizations and presentations appropriately designed for executive level audiences
• Be an advocate for data-informed decision making, making recommendations about the impacts of our various user growth efforts around the world
• Work as part of a team located largely across Stockholm, London, and New York

Who You Are

• You are highly passionate about the future of technology, entertainment and digital media, you have an informed point of view on where the industry is headed, and you want to play a role in shaping that future at one of the few globally scaled pure-play digital media and technology companies
• Your past work experiences have provided you with a deep understanding of numbers, a strong business sense for business performance drivers, and the skill to craft compelling and clear narratives using those data and insights
• The skills to tackle very loosely defined challenges, working both independently and as part of a cross functional analytics and strategy team
• Comfort  analyzing large datasets with statistical rigor using tools such as SQL, Python, R, SAS, Stata, or other programming languages
• A bias toward delivering actionable insights quickly rather than constructing the most technically complex model
• You have at least 3+ years of experience in a similar data science or analytics role, ideally in a consumer-facing company or a technology company

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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