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Data Scientist - Personalization
New York, NY

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Job Description

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Product Insights team, focusing on Personalization. We have several roles open across different levels of seniority.

You will be solving complex data problems and delivering the insight that helps to define our understanding of music, audio and our listeners to develop how we personalize at Spotify. This role works closely with a multidisciplinary team of data scientist, user researchers, data engineers, product teams and designers.

Your work will impact the way the world experiences music and audio!

What you'll do:

* Develop research questions and undertake data exploration to understand who our listeners are, how they get value out of Spotify, and where we can develop our product to bring greater value
* Work closely with the team including data engineering to build lasting solutions to our data modeling
* Design, analyze, and interpret the results of experiments
* Perform exploratory analyses to understand the performance of our machine learning systems
* Define, evaluate, dashboard and monitor key metrics, understanding root causes of changes
* Contribute to the development of the Product Insights function and the wider analytics community at Spotify
* Mentor and coach other data scientists
* Work from our office in New York

Who you are:

* You will have 2 to 5 years relevant applied experience with a degree or higher in economics, psychology, computer science, statistics, or mathematics or another quantitative discipline
* Technical competence to perform advanced analytics:
* Coding skills (such as R, Python, or Scala)
* Experience with analytics & visualization tools (SQL, Tableau, ggplot/matplotlib or equivalent)
* Experience performing analysis with large datasets
* You have strong statistical understanding of online testing methodologies and metric development


* You are an independent thinker, able to work autonomously, capable of taking on loosely defined problems and translating complex thinking into practical application for diverse audiences
* You are a communicative person who values building strong relationships with colleagues and partners and enjoys mentoring and teaching others

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music

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