Data Scientist - Finance Data & Insights

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Scientist to work with our Podcasts, Creator Payouts, and Ads Revenue data team. Your mission will be to support the data operations for enterprise and individual podcast creator calculations, perform analytics over advertising revenue, and provide insights to both internal and external stakeholders within Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), and the broader Finance organization .

What You'll Do

• Work with a cross-functional team of data scientists, engineers, and finance representatives to define and test requirements for enhancing revenue recognition systems and data products
• Work with our Engineers to support the development of systems, datasets, and processes to support the ingestion, analysis, and reporting of advertising delivery and revenue data
• Support ad-hoc requests from various internal teams (Accounting, Legal, Licensing, Financial Planning, etc) as well as external podcast publishers that require analysis of advertising data and systems
• Work with a group of highly motivated individuals who are passionate about Spotify’s success

Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience using databases and analytics tools to solve business problems.
• You have a degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics, or another quantitative discipline.
• You are skilled at using SQL and Python; experience using other analytic tools (e.g. Pandas, R, BigQuery) and visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) is a plus.
• You have proven experience communicating with both technical and non-technical teams to understand problems and articulate proposed solutions.
• You have experience performing analysis over large and complex data sets and formulating meaningful conclusions from your analysis or investigations that inform business decisions.
• You have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritize and deliver results in a fast moving company with a wide variety of strategic initiatives
• The ideal candidate has previous experience working with advertising delivery data and relevant systems such as ad servers

Where You'll Be

• Hybrid role based in our New York offices (average 2 to 3 days a week required)
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern time zone for collaboration

The United States base range for this position is $107,766.00 - 153,951.00 plus equity. 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. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. Apply for this job