
Data Scientist – Music Mission
Spotify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,018 - $157,169 per year
About the role
- Own analytical projects end-to-end, from hypothesis generation and data exploration to recommendations for product leadership
- Develop and own success metrics for generative music features and systems
- Design and analyze A/B tests and causal studies to evaluate product and model impact
- Perform exploratory analyses to uncover opportunities that improve experiences for listeners and artists
- Build scalable dashboards to monitor feature health and ecosystem impact
- Design and run evaluations for generative music systems, assessing risks and opportunities across prompts, outputs, and quality
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, Marketing, and Engineering to translate insights into product requirements
- Partner closely with Engineers and AI Researchers to integrate evaluation signals into model development workflows
- Communicate complex findings through clear, actionable narratives that inform product strategy and roadmap decisions
Requirements
- You have a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, quantitative social science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- You bring 4+ years of experience as a Data Scientist influencing product decisions through data
- You’re highly proficient in SQL and Python and comfortable working with large-scale datasets
- You use AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate analysis and workflows
- You have strong product intuition and a results-focused perspective— you seek the “why” behind the data
- You have experience with A/B testing, causal inference and advanced statistical methods, and exercise strong judgment in methodological choices
- You understand machine learning systems and can evaluate models beyond offline metrics, applying human judgment to quality and impact
- You thrive in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments and enjoy defining metrics & opportunities for entirely new product categories
- You’re motivated by creating real value for music fans and music creators
Benefits
- health insurance
- six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonA/B testingcausal inferenceadvanced statistical methodsmachine learning systemsdata explorationdata analysisdashboard developmentsuccess metrics
Soft Skills
product intuitionresults-focused perspectivestrong judgmentcommunicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycreativitymotivation