Senior Data Scientist - Content Platform

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the Content Platform Insights team. Content Platform is a central enabler for the Spotify business. We deliver a complete, available, and enriched catalog of music, podcasts, videos, and more. We provide the knowledge graph that accumulates differentiated understandings of creators, content, their attributes, and their relationships. We ensure we can readily moderate and control the catalog to ensure a safe and trusted experience for consumers and to keep our platform free of infringement.

The successful candidate will join the Magnum PI squad, which focuses on products and processes for content review, primarily the detection and handling of policy violations and copyright infringement. We help build products that allow us to detect issues, handle them automatically, or improve the work of operators.

What You'll Do

• Conduct exploratory analyses to understand the nature of our content and evaluate the performance of our automated review models
• Identify opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of content-related decisions
• Partner with product teams to measure and interpret the impact of new strategies and features

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of experience building data science solutions.
• Degree in data science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or a similar quantitative field.
• You have the technical competence to perform more advanced analytics
• Coding skills (SQL and Python or R)
• Data visualization tools (such as Tableau, Looker, matplotlib, ggplot2, or similar)
• You have extensive experience performing analysis with large datasets
• You are an ambitious person who’s capable of tackling loosely defined problems and driving strategic impact
• You are a communicative person who values building positive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and can explain complex topics in simple terms
• You have experience mentoring more junior data scientists to set them up for success
• You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high-energy environment and are comfortable with ambiguity

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location.
• excluding France for now due to on-call restrictions.
• This team operates within the Central Eastern time zone for collaboration.

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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.

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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.