Data Scientist, Messaging

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.
As a Data Scientist in the Messaging team, your role will be to turn terabytes of data into insights to help build a view into the world of music and listeners. Studying user behavior, evaluating ideas and experimenting with new features will be some of the main areas you focus on.
Does helping us understand how we can drive a better Messaging user experience, such as how users interact with Spotify messages (Email, In App, Push, SMS) and ensuring that our listeners find value in our messaging channels sound appealing to you? Our team is interested in how to engage our audiences with relevant and personalized messages through the right channel at the best time.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with cross-functional colleagues such as User Researchers, Product Managers, Designers and Engineers who are passionate about Spotify’s success.
• Impact product strategy by leading foundational research & experimentation initiatives to develop a deeper understanding of how product, platforms & promotions influence user behavior.
• Conduct statistically robust experiments to help product teams understand how changes to the Spotify user experience impact user behaviors and important company metrics that will help drive product decisions.

Who You Are

• A minimum of 1+ years of experience in a similar role.
• You know how to tackle loosely defined problems and come up with relevant answers and useful insights to guide product development decisions.
• A deep understanding of statistics (such as regression analysis, a/b testing, causal inference, significance testing etc) as well as a strong understanding of business objectives.
• You have the technical competence to perform advanced analytics: coding skills (Python), experience with analytics & visualization tools (SQL, Tableau) and experience performing analysis with large datasets.

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: https://lifeatspotify.com/locations.
• We ask that our team members ideally be located within the Eastern Standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration 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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