or apply directly on Spotify's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 30 days Spotify's roles stay open a median of 44 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 34% of Spotify's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Spotify
- low 0 stale, 0 reposted of 80 open
- Hiring momentum
- 155 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Spotify's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Spotify.
About this role
As a Data Scientist in the Music Mission at Spotify, you will focus on the Discovery Mode tool, which helps artists and labels find new listeners. Your responsibilities include partnering with product managers and ML engineers to evaluate and enhance models, designing experiments, and building analytical frameworks to ensure the accuracy and impact of the models used in Discovery Mode.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Spotify as an employer.
What you need
- Experience in data analysis and experimentation
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to collaborate with product managers and ML engineers
- Experience with model evaluation and improvement
What you get
- Health insurance
- Six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- Paid flexible holidays
Worth weighing
- Salary range provided, but may be modified in the future
- Role involves working with machine learning models, which may require specific technical skills
- Focus on analytical problems may limit exposure to other areas of data science
Summarised from Spotify's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Spotify on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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