Senior Data Scientist - Advertising - Remote

Overview

At Spotify Advertising, our mission is to build the next-generation advertising platform for marketers that can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges and tremendous opportunities to define the product for our business. The advertising business is poised for substantive growth in the coming years and is an exciting place to be. Research and Insights is at the core of driving business decisions for this team.

In Short

• Partner with business partners to understand problems space and reframe them as data science solutions end-to-end.
• Deliver challenging, large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity independently.
• Write code (Python, R, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.
• Build statistical models and design experiments to solve applicable business problems.
• Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key partners.
• Work closely with a cross-functional team of economists, engineers, product owners, and business decisions makers.
• Prioritize business solutions, regardless of product area.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience in a similar data science role and a degree in economics, statistics, or similar quantitative subject areas.
• Comfortable building and maintaining large, complex datasets.
• Technical competence to perform advanced analytics using coding skills for analytics and data extraction.
• Experience in causal inference and experimental design.
• Broad knowledge of ML methods, statistical analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience taking a project idea and bringing it to life through self-driven scoping, planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Built statistical models with proven business impact.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with DEs, MLEs, and Research Scientists.
• Experience with LLMs.
• Bonus if you have experience analyzing ad creatives or ad tech.

Benefits

• Flexibility to work where you work best within the Americas region.
• Team operates within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.