Junior Data Scientist - Content Platform
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Content Platform Insights team. Content Platform is a central enabler for the Spotify business. We deliver a complete, available and enriched catalog of music, podcasts, videos and more. We provide the knowledge graph that accumulates differentiated understandings of creators, content, their attributes and their relationships. We ensure we can readily moderate and control the catalog to ensure a safe and trusted experience for consumers and to keep our platform free of infringement.
The successful candidate will join The Cherry PI squad, which focuses on understanding the composition, growth, cost and value of our music, podcast and audiobook catalogues. We partner with the engineering teams who build, maintain and extend those catalogues to explore opportunities and risks, assess performance and set goals.
Recent and current project work by our squad has included Quantifying undesired licensor behaviour in the music catalogue, Finding podcasts with little or no value to Spotify for possible deletion, and Modeling which of our tracks are ‘background music’ or designed for children.
A key focus for the squad, and this position in 2025 will be making maximal catalogues economically viable.
Data Science work in Content Platform more broadly is characterised by a heavy focus on exploratory work in a high-ambiguity environment, an intimate knowledge of our music, podcast and audiobook catalogues, a moderate quantity of modeling work and relatively little experimentation.