USD per year
Data Scientist II
Trust & Safety
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. Spotify is seeking a Data Scientist II to join Product Trust Insights (PTI) within Trust & Safety. PTI accelerates Spotify innovation by providing safety research, risk measurement, and evidence-based recommendations that enable R&D teams to confidently expand into new products, markets, and technologies. PTI's research informs how Spotify designs, launches, and improves features across the platform, with a particular focus on AI-powered experiences, recommendations, social and messaging surfaces, and the safety needs of younger users. Our work helps product teams understand where risks concentrate, which user segments are most affected, and which interventions improve outcomes. We aim to keep safety upstream of moderation by shaping product design before launch and measuring how features perform once they reach users.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end research and measurement projects that evaluate the safety of new and existing features, from scoping through delivery of actionable recommendations
- Design and generate data for product risk assessments, stress tests, and evaluation of AI-powered features, including generative and agentic experiences
- Develop longitudinal trust and safety metrics and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of product interventions over time
- Translate complex research findings into clear narratives, tools, and recommendations for product, policy, and leadership audiences
- Partner with product safety specialists, policy advisors, product leads, and engineering counterparts to ensure product launches reflect user safety needs and support thoughtful, “no regrets” design
- Build and improve evaluation methods, including LLM-based evaluation approaches, behavioral instrumentation, and measurement frameworks in collaboration with data scientists and engineers
- You will work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, policy specialists, researchers, and other data scientists. Your work will help inform decisions that often involve senior leadership.
Who You Are
- You have 3+ years experience as a data scientist or equivalent role in a tech company or related field.
- Strong statistical analysis skills including hypothesis testing.
- Experience working with large datasets using SQL or similar query languages.
- Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis.
- Familiarity with machine learning techniques such as classification or clustering.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex findings into clear insights.
- Passionate about online safety issues especially related to social media platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range $117k-$167k USD annually.
- Location: New York or Boston with flexible remote work options available.
- Comprehensive health insurance plans including dental & vision.
- Generous paid time off policy plus holidays.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Employee stock purchase program.
- Wellness programs including gym membership discounts.
- All The Feels our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
- Flexible public holidays swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify is a global music streaming and podcast platform offering millions of songs and episodes accessible on multiple devices with various subscription plans.
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