As a Data Scientist in the Advertising team, you will analyze data, define requirements, support product growth, and provide insights to enhance Spotify Ads Manager's performance.
Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for our fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
We are currently recruiting for a Data Scientist within the multidisciplinary Advertising Product Insights team. This role is focused on supporting the scaling of the future of Spotify Advertising, our self-service advertising platform, Spotify Ads Manager. Our work sits at the intersection of R&D and the Ads business, and we are responsible for bringing the right data and insights to our breadth of stakeholders to understand Spotify Ads Manager performance, and the advertiser experience with Spotify.
Our mission is to enable the product and business teams to meet their objectives through evidence based decision making and customer focus. As a data scientist in this group you will use a range of data science tools and capabilities to work closely with product, design, engineering, user research, product marketing, and our business stakeholders on one or more of the following areas:
Customer facing product development for advertisers
Data requirements and management for our ever expanding platform
Spotify Advertiser and Spotify Ads Manager growth initiatives
Experimentation, causal inference and Insights for Spotify Ads Manager optimization
Defining new metrics, forecasts, and benchmarks for product evolution
Evolving Ads Manager self-service performance and UX reporting
What You'll Do
- Perform analyses on large sets of data to extract practical insights that will help drive product, platform and business decisions throughout all stages of the product development lifecycle
- Define data requirements and support the implementation of data specs for product launches
- Support the management and maintenance of the Spotify Ads Manager’s data and reporting (including dashboards) ecosystem
- Build lasting solutions to surface critical data and performance metrics
- Design and conduct experiments to drive iterative improvement to both user and advertiser metrics through efficient experimentation
- Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key partners
- Develop individually to continue to grow your impact, and help mentor peers and early career colleagues
Who You Are
- You have 3+ years experience in a similar data science role
- You are interested in supporting the growth of a maturing platform, building the foundation for the future of Spotify Advertising
- Ideally you have experience working in an analytics role that focuses on improving internal decision making while working with one of - platform teams, product teams, sales teams or marketing teams
- You have the technical competence to perform more advanced analytics: Coding skills for analytics and data extraction (SQL, Python - packages such as pandas and numpy) and Data visualization (Tableau, Looker, matplotlib)
- You have experience performing analysis with large datasets
- You have a strong understanding of statistics and machine learning
- You value cross-disciplinary work and understand how to match qualitative research with your quantitative analysis
- You are capable of solving very loosely defined problems
- You are a communicative person that values building strong relationships with colleagues and collaborators and have the ability to explain complex topics in simple terms
- You are curious, exhibit a growth mindset and are excited by working on a constantly evolving team
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 anywhere in the North America 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 Eastern time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $107,766 - $153,951, 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. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Top Skills
Looker
Matplotlib
Numpy
Pandas
Python
SQL
Tableau
Spotify New York, New York, USA Office
4 World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States, 10007
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