We are looking for an experienced data scientist with a strong business background. You will be part of a small but growing team of data scientists and analytics engineers that specializes in predicting the business outlook for the Spotify Freemium business. This is a highly impactful role where you will be taking ownership of the subscriber forecast, working closely with senior business partners to model the outlook of the Spotify subscriber base leveraging the in-house forecasting system. You will also own and develop a number of core dashboards supporting the forecast and enabling in-depth performance monitoring across the business.

What You'll Do

• Own the subscriber forecast including modelling the base outlook, estimating the impact of new business initiatives and project manage the wider process
• Work with analytics engineers in the team to further develop the in-house forecasting system
• Analyse and explore alternative approaches to current methodologies and drive improvements to forecast accuracy and execution
• Own and develop dashboards over core business metrics and how they track against the company outlook

Who You Are

• Expertise in relevant quantitative subject such as Finance, Computer Science, Statistics or Econometrics
• At least 5+ years of Data Science work experience, a background with forecast/prediction modeling or similar is a plus
• Experience communicating data heavy insights and complex models to senior business stakeholders. Both verbally and through visual communication such as slides.
• Comfortable across the data science tech stack (eg. SQL based databases, writing and reading code, spreadsheets, visualising data)

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European time zone for collaboration
• We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours 

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