Data Scientist - Advertising

Spotify; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify, based in New York, is hiring a Data Scientist for Advertising on the Advertising R&D team. You will help design analytics, models, and experiments that optimize how advertisers reach audiences and how users experience ads at scale in streaming audio and video features.

Join a fast-moving group building a next-generation advertising platform, collaborating with product, engineering, and data scientists to turn data into insight and impact for hundreds of millions of fans and thousands of

Job description

About this role

Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.

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