Staff Data Scientist - Product Insights & Content Safety

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify seeks a Staff Data Scientist to tackle high-impact problems across user behavior and content data, shaping product strategy with analytical leadership. You’ll build metrics, enable self-serve analysis, and mentor teams while advancing content classification, safety, and taxonomy.

Based in London or Stockholm, this hybrid role offers flexibility to work from home with some in-person meetings and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership.

Qualifications

• Staff level or equivalent experience as a product data scientist.
• Strong foundation in statistics and evaluation/measurement design (including annotation-based methods).
• Experience building metrics and reporting systems to support product decisions.
• Built self-serve analytical tools or data agents for others to answer questions.

Responsibilities

• Lead analyses across user behavior and content data to shape product decisions.
• Shape evaluation of content classification and taxonomy with focus on safety and business needs.
• Design evaluation frameworks, baselines, metrics, and annotation-based approaches.
• Build scalable analytical foundations: metrics, dashboards, and self-serve data context.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership to align data with strategy.
• Raise analytical standards through mentorship and cross-domain data work.

Skills

SQL

Python

DBT

Tools

DBT

Job description

Spotify seeks a Staff Data Scientist to tackle high-impact problems across user behavior and content data, shaping product strategy with analytical leadership. You’ll build metrics, enable self-serve analysis, and mentor teams while advancing content classification, safety, and taxonomy.

Based in London or Stockholm, this hybrid role offers flexibility to work from home with some in-person meetings and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership.