Senior Data Scientist
Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Data Science · Machine Learning
In short
Responsibilities
- Lead foundational measurement and insights work for generative music experiences.
- Develop frameworks to understand creator, listener, and rights holder engagement with generative AI music.
- Design and run large-scale analyses and evaluations of generative music systems.
- Integrate evaluation signals into model development loops and debugging workflows.
- Identify behavioral and market dynamics shaping consumer demand and creator participation.
- Build scalable metrics and decision systems for AI music quality, safety, and creator alignment.
- Synthesize model, user behavior, and ecosystem signals into clear narratives for product strategy.
- Create datasets, dashboards, and long-term measurement systems for product health and impact.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Research, Legal, and Marketing.
Requirements
- Track record of using insights to shape strategy for major company initiatives.
- Significant hands-on experience in advanced analytics or data science, ideally in LLM evaluation, user-generated content, or complex user behavior.
- Clear communication skills, ability to form evidence-backed points of view.
- Proficiency in advanced analytics with Python and SQL.
- Experience analyzing large datasets.
- Use of AI tools (e.g. Cursor, Copilot) for productivity.
- Experience developing metrics frameworks for complex products.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks, designing and assessing multimodal or embedding-based models.
- Validation of models against LLM judges or human ground truth.
- Understanding of how to evaluate models beyond offline accuracy.
- Solid grounding in experimental design and causal inference (A/B tests, quasi-experiments, power analysis).
- Thrive in tackling loosely defined problems in ambiguous, zero-to-one spaces.
Benefits
- Flexibility to work where you work best, with options for remote work.
- In-person meetings for collaboration.
- US Eastern timezone for team collaboration.
- Salary range: $144,714–$206,735 USD, plus equity.
- Health insurance.
- Six-month paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Monthly meal allowance.
- 23 paid days off.
- Paid flexible holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Extensive learning opportunities through GreenHouse.
- Flexible share incentives.
- Global parental leave (six months for all new parents).
- All The Feels employee assistance program and self-care hub.
- Flexible public holidays.
Skills
About Spotify
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers…
Company
SpotifyJob Posted
1 day ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$144,714–206,735 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
New York, United States
Boston, United States
Washington D.C., United States
Applicants
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