As a Data Scientist, you will create performance metrics frameworks, analyze datasets, and provide insights to aid product decision-making across SAFE studios.
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
The SAFE Insights team supports the five studios that make up the SAFE Alliance: User Platform, User Fraud, IT, Security, and PACE (Procurement, Analytics, and Cost Engineering). We help these studios understand their impact by running experiments, defining and building performance metrics, and delivering analyses that guide decision-making. As a Data Scientist on the team, you’ll collaborate across disciplines to surface insights, shape product thinking, and strengthen a culture of evidence-driven decisions.
What You'll Do
- Partner with Insights Leads and senior data scientists to design and build performance metric frameworks.
- Work with data engineers to create pipelines for key metrics and maintain dashboards that support operational and strategic decisions.
- Explore complex datasets to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities that help SAFE studios understand their impact.
- Scope, prioritize, and execute projects including A/B tests and other experimentation approaches.
- Apply statistical and causal inference methods to evaluate product changes for internal and external users.
- Create compelling data stories through visualizations and reporting that influence decision-making across the Alliance.
- Grow into a strategic analytical partner by taking on increasingly complex data challenges.
Who You Are
- You know how to frame questions, explore complex datasets, and develop insights that drive clarity and action.
- You are experienced with experimentation, causal inference, and the statistical techniques needed to measure product impact.
- You have a deep understanding of how to communicate insights through dashboards, visualizations, and clear narratives; you have experience with Tableau, Looker, or other data visualization technologies.
- You are skilled in data science programming languages such as Python or R, and comfortable working with SQL and large-scale data technologies.
- You care about building reliable metrics and helping teams make informed decisions using trustworthy data.
- You have experience collaborating with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners.
- You are curious, adaptable, and excited to grow your craft over time.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in Toronto
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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