Summer Internship Data Scientist in Financial Engineering
We are looking for Data Scientist Interns to #JoinTheBand and help drive a data-first culture across Spotify. Our Data Scientist mission is to turn terabytes of data into insights and get a deep understanding of music and listeners so we can impact the strategy and direction of Spotify. You will study user behavior, critical initiatives, markets, content, and new features and bring data and insights into every decision we make. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences audio.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Our mission in Financial Engineering (FinE) is to accelerate Spotify’s growth and performance with a trusted financial platform, providing valuable data and insights for our partners across Finance and beyond.
Data scientists in FinE play a key role in developing the statistical and predictive models that are a key part of this platform, helping the business move faster from insights to action and supporting data-driven financial decision making.
What you'll do
- Perform analyses on large sets of data to extract practical insights that will help drive decisions across the business
- Build dashboards and recurring reporting results, empowering creative growth and business decisions
- Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key collaborators
- Work closely with cross-functional teams of data scientists, engineers, product managers, and others across the company who are passionate about Spotify’s success
Who you are
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or bootcamp certification in Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative subject area and planning to graduate in 2023
- You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to August 2022
- Harbor a passion for numbers and the use of data to make decisions
- Technical competence to perform more analytics in one or more of the following areas:
- Coding skills (such as Python, Java, or Scala)
- Analytics tools experience (such as Pandas, R, SPSS, SQL, or Tableau)
- Experience performing analysis with large datasets
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 Americas region in which we have a work location
- For this role, you can choose to either work from home or from one of our office locations
- Working hours? We operate within the EST time zone for collaboration
Our paid summer internships last for 10-13 weeks and start at the beginning of June. The last day to apply is Friday, January 28, 2022 at 4:59 PM EST.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 381 million users.
Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure
Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.
This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.