Data Science Insights Manager, Spotify Ads

Sell what you love. For us and millions of users across the globe, that’s Spotify. Join the Sales team and you’ll build the relationships that help grow our business in existing markets and beyond. We don’t just sell creative solutions to our clients and partners, we help to shape them; using our expert knowledge of ad products, sales channels and the industry to impact the way the world experiences music and podcasts. 
We work at the intersection of advertising and messaging technologies to connect millions of brands to billions of fans. As part of the Advertising team, we’re paving the way for a sustainable global Spotify business that allows even more creators to make a living off their art. Come join us and help build the platform that powers promotion at Spotify.
We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead the strategy and execution of insights that enable data-driven decisions for our Advertising Business. You’ll play a key role in enhancing Spotify’s Data & Insights capability that drives more inquisitive strategies across sales, marketing and CRM. You will be leading a growing team of 4-5 data scientists on our Ads Business Insights team. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to use Spotify’s world-class user data infrastructure and collaborate with a global community of hundreds of data scientists.

What You'll Do

• Lead a growing team of data scientists and insights professionals using a range of approaches from statistical/econometric models to causal inference to drive insights across different functions of advertising business unit - sales, marketing and ops and in close collaboration with product
• Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key stakeholders at the Director, VP, and Executive levels
• Collaborate with stakeholders to imbibe insights and data solutions in day-to-day decision making, OKR planning, and strategic prioritization.
• Guide and mentor the team on data science problem sets, choice of modeling method, model application etc.
• Help the team drive impact by prioritizing problems with the highest business opportunity as well as mentor them on data science technical skills, career progression and stakeholder management
• Work cross functionally with product insights, qual researchers , systems and tooling teams to put systems in place that improve the quality of our data, insights, data products and its adoption in sales & marketing processes.
• Translate complex problems and solutions to all levels of the organization.

Who You Are

• You have a min of 2+ years of experience as a people manager leading a team of Data Scientists and a min of 7+years of data science experience
• You have experience leading Data Science and Insights in similar businesses (Advertising technology, B2B businesses, Managing business insights in agile environments)
• You love solving problems collectively with other partners and teams. You are passionate about driving projects, leading solutions for big hairy projects and not scared of having difficult conversations.
• You have the technical competence to perform sophisticated statistical analysis via efficiently working with large datasets and understanding current data infrastructure
• You’re a superb communicator with experience conveying ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders of all levels.
• You are able to drive the insights home for senior leaders and don’t believe in building models for the sake of sophistication.
• You are passionate about mentoring!
• Proven experience in people management and leadership.
• Completing a degree with a specialization in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Operations Research, or another quant field is helpful.
• You have experience leading Data Science and Insights in similar businesses (Advertising technology, B2B businesses, Managing business insights in agile environments)

The United States base range for this position is $134,236-$191,765, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.
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.