Data Scientist - Content Understanding

The role

This role sits within Spotify's Content Platform team, responsible for ensuring music, podcasts, and audiobooks are properly ingested, structured, and delivered at scale. As a Data Scientist II, you'll apply machine learning and statistical methods to understand how content is classified, evaluated, and personalized for millions of users globally.

What you would do

• Examine user behavior and catalog patterns to inform product strategy decisions
• Refine content classification systems and taxonomy structures for improved organization
• Build evaluation frameworks for annotation processes, including sampling design and LLM quality assessment
• Create metrics, dashboards, and SQL tools enabling cross-functional decision-making
• Enhance data quality and transformation pipelines using SQL and DBT for consistent reporting

What they asked for

• Demonstrated experience analyzing datasets combining user behavior with content metadata
• Track record building metrics and reporting systems supporting product decisions
• Strong statistical foundation with ability to design evaluation approaches without controlled experiments
• Experience developing annotation frameworks with sampling and baseline strategies
• Proficiency measuring quality of language model-generated annotations
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with DBT, Python, or R for dataset maintenance
• Clear communication and effective cross-functional collaboration abilities