Staff Data Scientist - Experience

Spotify
Stockholm, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder influence","Mentorship","Methodological leadership","Quality focus"]

Join the Product Insights team to improve decision-making across Spotify’s Content Platform, from ingestion to delivery. You’ll lead analyses across user behavior and content data, shape evaluation frameworks (including annotation-based and experimental methods), and build scalable measurement systems and self-serve analytical tools. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to raise analytical standards and advance content classification, taxonomy, and safety using metrics and state-of-the-art LLM approaches.

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Staff Data Scientist - Experience

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Job Summary

Join the Product Insights team to improve decision-making across Spotify’s Content Platform, from ingestion to delivery. You’ll lead analyses across user behavior and content data, shape evaluation frameworks (including annotation-based and experimental methods), and build scalable measurement systems and self-serve analytical tools. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to raise analytical standards and advance content classification, taxonomy, and safety using metrics and state-of-the-art LLM approaches.
Location: Stockholm, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead analyses across user behavior and content data to inform product and strategy decisions.
  • •Shape evaluation and improvement of content classification and taxonomy with a focus on safety and data quality.
  • •Design evaluation frameworks, including sampling strategies, baselines, metrics, and annotation-based approaches.
  • •Build scalable analytical foundations, including metrics, dashboards, and the data needed for self-serve analysis and data agents.
  • •Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership to align priorities and ensure data informs product strategy.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience as a product data scientist at Staff level or equivalent.
  • •Strong statistics foundation, including designing measurement and evaluation approaches (e.g., annotation-based methods, controlled experiments when feasible).
  • •Experience building metrics and reporting systems for product or policy decision-making.
  • •Proficiency in SQL and experience with Python and DBT (or similar) for reliable analytical datasets.
  • •Experience leveraging state-of-the-art LLM models while ensuring output quality and accuracy.
Experience:Product data scienceContent classificationTaxonomySafetyPolicy-adjacent domains
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder influenceMentorshipMethodological leadershipQuality focus
Tech Stack:SQLPythonDBTLLMMetricsDashboards

Company Brief

Spotify
Provides a music, podcast and audio streaming service offering on-demand access to millions of tracks and podcasts, personalized recommendations, and advertising and subscription-based tiers for listeners and creators worldwide.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2006
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