Data Scientist - Advertising

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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 ecosystem, including dashboards
• Build lasting solutions to surface critical data and performance metrics
• Create and execute experiments aimed at incrementally improving user and advertiser metrics via efficient testing methods
• 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

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in a similar data science role
• Interest in supporting the growth of a maturing platform and building the foundation for the future of Spotify Advertising
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics simply
• Experience working with platform, product, sales, or marketing teams to improve internal decision making
• Technical competence in analytics: coding skills for data extraction (SQL, Python with pandas and numpy), and data visualization (Tableau, Looker, matplotlib)
• Experience analyzing large datasets
• Strong understanding of statistics and machine learning
• Ability to match qualitative research with quantitative analysis
• Capability to solve loosely defined problems
• Curiosity, growth mindset, and enthusiasm for working on a constantly evolving team

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a cross-disciplinary environment
• Familiarity with experimentation and causal inference techniques

Qualifications

• Relevant work history of 3+ years in data science roles

Benefits & Perks

• Health insurance
• Six month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays
• Base salary range of $110,018.00 - 157,169.00 plus equity