Data Scientist (Dashboarding & Analytics) - Platform & Partner Experience

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.
Spotify is seeking a Data Scientist with strong skills in data visualization, metrics and analytics to join the band. We are looking for someone to build and maintain analytics KPIs and dashboarding, monitoring the impact of our platforms and products via dashboards and visualizations at department level. Our aim is to make access to key analytics and metrics easy for our partners. You will be joining an insights team that consists of both Data Scientists and User Researchers, in a role which requires independence, creative problem solving, and great stakeholder management skills.
The role is highly impactful. You will directly contribute to supporting Spotify’s product strategy for multiple platforms.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with leadership on key data initiatives and impactful analytics.
• Design, build, maintain, and iterate on a suite of lasting visual dashboards to supervise metrics and enable self-service data discovery.
• Team up with fellow data scientists to design datasets and metrics to measure product impact, user engagement and product/feature performance.
• Collaborate with data engineers and be responsible for the analytics layer of our team’s data environment to make data standardized and easily accessible.
• Proactively collect requirements and feedback from partners, educating the teams about new data products, and voicing support for the team’s work.
• Set the standard and elevate others to build efficient data pipelines and impactful visualizations and dashboards.
• Contribute to the broader analytics community at Spotify by setting high-quality standards.
• Identify new opportunities to answer key questions from data, prioritise impactful initiatives, and deliver new insight around our users, what they use, and what they do. 

Who you are

• You have proven experience from a similar role and are passionate about using data visualization for storytelling.
• You have a very high level of expertise with Tableau Desktop software or similar tools (e.g. Qlik Sense, Looker or PowerBI).
• You can provide a portfolio showcasing your data visualization projects, specifically, business-centric dashboards e.g. Tableau Public, PowerBI Gallery etc. 
• You collect requirements from a wide range of partners, including an executive audience, and distill those down into meaningful plans.
• You are a communicative person who values building positive relationships with colleagues and partners.
• You craft analytics data layers and conduct base ETL with extensive data sets.
• You possess a good command of SQL.
• You are experience with Python or R.
• You enjoy mentoring and teaching others, and you can explain sophisticated topics in simple terms.

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 and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
• 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.

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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.