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Data Scientist - Content Understanding

Spotify

London, UKhybridPosted Dec 15, 2025

At a glance

Highlights

  • Inclusive hiring process
  • Global mission
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Why this role might suit you

The role provides exposure to large-scale content understanding at a leading audio streaming platform, involvement with advanced machine-learning systems, and the opportunity to influence billions of listeners while working in an inclusive, mission-driven environment.

Skills

machine-learning

About the role

Spotify’s consumer product is powered by an enormous and ever-growing catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The Content Platform team is responsible for making sure that content is ingested, structured, evaluated, and delivered reliably at global scale.

Our work ensures that creators’ content reaches fans quickly and accurately and that Spotify’s catalog is organized in a way that supports discovery, personalization, and a seamless listening experience. We partner closely with engineering, product, operations, labels, distributors, and research teams to keep our content ecosystem robust and scalable.

As a Data Scientist II, you’ll work at the intersection of user behavior, metadata, and machine learning systems to improve how content is classified, evaluated, and understood across Spotify.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.

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