Senior Data Scientist - Marketing

Spotify is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to build advanced statistical models to quantify the impact of our marketing spend. You’ll play a key role in expanding Spotify’s marketing measurement abilities, and be a key senior mentor for others on the team. The role reports into the Marketing Analytics team lead and there will be significant cross-functional collaboration. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage Spotify’s world-class user data infrastructure and collaborate with a global community of hundreds of data scientists.

What You'll Do

• Work with other senior data scientists on the team leveraging a range of approaches from statistical / econometric models to machine learning to understand the causal effect of our marketing spend on KPIs like users, consumption, and brand metrics 
• Help definite experimentation roadmap based on model results creating a flywheel of efficiency gains for our spend 
• Work with business partners to define priorities, approaches and business requirements for data science solutions
• Deliver data science products to help optimize marketing spend, maximizing our returns
• Translate complex problems and solutions to all levels of the organization
• Drive innovation of the statistical and machine learning methodologies and tools used by the team

Who You Are

• Master or PhD degree with a specialization in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, or another quantitative field
• 7+ (or 3+ with PhD) years of combined experience in advanced analytics in industry or research
• Expert-level knowledge of statistical methods and machine learning
• You have the technical competence to perform advanced analytics via efficiently working with large datasets, and the software engineering skillset to build data science applications
• Advantageous if you have experience with large datasets related to tracking marketing campaigns, and are familiar with industry standard modeling approaches like MMM and MTA

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 

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