Data Science Lead - Marketing Analytics

Job Description

Do you rock, rap or jazz out to music and data? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Spotify is looking for a rockstar candidate to join the grammy-winning Marketing and Consumer Insights (MCI) team. You will support Spotify's Marketing organization goal of building a globally loved brand and bringing the next generation of fans to Spotify.

The primary duties of this role will be to lead the Marketing Analytics team in providing analytical support for our global Freemium Marketing team, lead measurement of marketing's ability to drive brand health and ensure we continuously improve the effectiveness of our marketing investments. Aka, singer-songwriter.

You will be a trusted partner to our Freemium Marketing friends, ensure the Marketing Analytics team focuses our efforts on the most impactful insights initiatives, and also manage the technical and professional development of more junior members of the Marketing Analytics team. You will also lead analytics engineering projects that help the rest of the MCI team get the data they need to run their analytics projects.
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What you'll do
• Partner with Marketing leadership in strategy development, goal setting and budget planning
• Perform analyses on large sets of data to extract actionable insights that will drive decisions around our global marketing investments
• Provide end-to-end campaign support, from goal setting and measurement plan development, to in-campaign performance insights and optimization recommendations, and post-campaign evaluation and recommendations
• Define experimentation roadmap to identify new growth opportunities for our marketing investments
• Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to non-technical audiences, through clear visualizations and presentations
• Lead a small team of Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers in MCI's pursuit of becoming a world leading insights team for our marketing partners
• Partner with the other MCI leads and their teams on projects supporting Spotify's broader marketing organization
• Lead cross-functional groups of insights professionals (think market researchers, analysts, product insights) to triangulate information across various sources

Who you are
• Intellectually curious, open-minded, and enjoy working in a fast changing environment
• A natural communicator, who focuses just as much on the delivery and the ''so what'' of your insights, as you do on the technical craft of extracting them
• Effective at building strong, influential relationships with colleagues and partners, with demonstrated success in delivering impactful insights to executives
• 5+ years of experience in an analytics and/or data science role, with either direct people manager or extensive mentorship experience
• Strong analytical skills, including analysis and modeling of big data using SQL, Python and/or R, statistics, A/B testing, and experimental design required
• Experience building data visualizations and dashboards (e.g., Tableau or similar BI solution)
• Comfortable working on a globally distributed team

Where you'll be
• This role is located in the New York Tri-state area or east coast of the United States

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The United States base range for this position is $134,326 - $191,765 plus equity (plus bonus or commission. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g661mn-18-223-172-252-42 in your application.