Staff Data Scientist, Content Platform

• Join Spotify’s Product Insights team as a Staff Data Scientist, based in London or Stockholm. • Work across the full content lifecycle for music, podcasts and audiobooks, from ingestion to delivery. • Help keep one of the world’s largest content catalogues safe, trusted and engaging. • Tackle complex, high-impact problems with both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. • Shape how content classification and taxonomy are evaluated, with a focus on safety. • Enjoy flexible hybrid working, with some in-person meetings.

• Bring deep experience as a product data scientist at Staff level or equivalent. • Show a strong foundation in statistics and experience designing evaluation and measurement approaches. • Bring experience with annotation-based methods and settings where controlled experiments aren’t feasible. • Build metrics and reporting systems that support product or policy decisions. • Show experience building self-serve analytical tools or data agents. • Write SQL proficiently and use Python, dbt or similar tools for reliable datasets. • Use state-of-the-art LLMs in your analysis while ensuring quality and accuracy. • Influence senior stakeholders and communicate clearly across functions. • Bring experience in content classification, taxonomy, safety, policy or adjacent domains.

• Bring experience working with music, podcast or audiobook catalogues. • Show experience mentoring data scientists and setting methodological standards. • Bring experience partnering with operations teams on content moderation or review. • Know trust and safety or regulatory requirements for large content platforms.

• Lead analyses of user behaviour and content data to shape product and strategy decisions. • Shape how content classification and taxonomy are evaluated and improved, especially for safety. • Design evaluation frameworks covering sampling, baselines, metrics and annotation approaches. • Build scalable metrics, dashboards and data foundations for self-serve analysis and agents. • Partner with Product, Engineering and Operations leaders to set priorities. • Raise the analytical bar through methodological leadership and mentorship.

• Work flexibly from home and the office, with some in-person meetings. • Take six months of global parental leave as a new parent. • Choose how you share in Spotify’s success through flexible share incentives. • Access extensive learning opportunities through Spotify’s GreenHouse team. • Use All The Feels, Spotify’s employee assistance and self-care programme. • Swap public holidays to match your values and beliefs.

Spotify is the world’s leading audio streaming platform, offering music, podcasts, audiobooks and video to hundreds of millions of listeners. Its Experience organisation designs the end-to-end consumer experience across every screen, platform and partner integration. The Content Platform team manages the full content lifecycle, making sure content is structured, trusted and delivered reliably at global scale.