Data Scientist - Experimentation

Stockholm

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The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our team and help us drive the truly unique experimentation culture and platform that powers the thousands of A/B Tests running at any given time at Spotify. Our team of experimentation advocates is now looking for an additional member. You will join a diverse group of highly skilled data scientists that are passionate about experimentation. You will teach experimentation to the rest of Spotify, advance the underlying theory and methods we use, work with our platform team on new experimentation features,  as well as find new ways of applying experimentation, for instance in a machine learning setting. Above all, you will play a pivotal role in creating a culture of experimentation throughout the company.

What you'll do

  • Work closely with product teams across Spotify to help them overcome experimentation challenges and take better product decisions
  • to help them overcome experimentation challenges and take better product decisions
  • Gather, cultivate and research experimentation best practices
  • Research new methods for experimentation
  • Create our internal experimentation teaching material
  • Build networks and communities around data informed product development
  • Help spotify develop procedures for iterating fast while managing risks in a big data environment

Who you are

  • You have significant practical expertise in experimentation design and analysis methodologies with a degree in statistics, computer science or another quantitative field
  • Solid foundation in causal inference methodology and how to identify causal effects.
  • Proficient in advanced analytics: statistical hypothesis testing and statistical modeling
  • Comfortable working with large datasets and well versed in tools such as SQL, Python, R
  • Passionate about the role of experimentation in helping  a company’s potential as a data informed organization, and as a community builder you take an active interest in developing others
  • You have experience with proactively building relationships across organizational boundaries and with multiple stakeholders
  • You are a strong communicator and can explain sophisticated topics in simple terms. Prior teaching experience is a definite plus

Where you'll be

  • For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
  • 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.
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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Tags: A/B testing Big Data Causal inference Computer Science Machine Learning Python R Research SQL Statistical modeling Statistics Streaming Testing

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: Europe
Country: Sweden
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