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Spotify Data Scientist jobs

Just two US data scientist reqs open, both in New York, with posted bases of $95K–$167K.

$117k–$167k
base salary
56/100
Index score
NYC (US reqs) · London · Stockholm
Locations
Hiring
As of October 11, 2026

The Data Scientist, Product Insights role

Spotify’s US data scientists work in Product Insights for the Music Mission (Discovery Mode, Marquee, Showcase): metrics, dashboards and experiments, with ML model evaluation on the newer req. It is product analytics and experimentation, some of it ML-adjacent, hired one req per team on a rolling basis.

No published DS ladder; US DS reqs sit in the Music team’s Data and Analytics department under Product Insights, and levels.fyi lists seven levels from Associate to Principal.

Worth knowing: Spotify’s Music Mission req (created June 22, 2026) makes the data scientist the ‘analytical lead’ of the Discovery Mode ML squad, evaluating the models behind measurement — one of just three DS reqs among 76 open jobs on October 11, 2026.

Spotify data scientist salary

$117k–$167k
Base salary
Not published
Total comp (est., with equity)

Base: the posted range on ‘Data Scientist – Music Mission’ (4+ years; created Jun 22, 2026), plus equity; ‘Data Scientist – Music Promotion’ (created Sep 10, 2026) posts $94,584–$135,121. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi Spotify Data Scientist has only nine samples per level (Data Scientist I $125k–$160k, Data Scientist II $205k–$214k) and Spotify does not say which level these reqs hire into.

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Compensation
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Program maturity
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Career capital
8
Momentum
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Spotify data scientist: common questions

Spotify’s posted base band is $117k–$167k. Base: the posted range on ‘Data Scientist – Music Mission’ (4+ years; created Jun 22, 2026), plus equity; ‘Data Scientist – Music Promotion’ (created Sep 10, 2026) posts $94,584–$135,121. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi Spotify Data Scientist has only nine samples per level (Data Scientist I $125k–$160k, Data Scientist II $205k–$214k) and Spotify does not say which level these reqs hire into.
As of October 11, 2026: Three reqs titled Data Scientist among 76 open jobs on lifeatspotify.com as of Oct 11, 2026 — two in the US (Music Mission and Music Promotion, both New York) and one in London or Stockholm. Check the live careers page for current reqs.
Not typically. Music Mission: 4+ years in a data science role and a quantitative degree. Music Promotion: ‘demonstrated ability in a similar Data Science role’, no years stated. Python, SQL, BigQuery, dbt and A/B testing. No entry-level DS req is open.
Some are. Work From Anywhere program — Music Promotion is ‘based in our New York office’ on Eastern time, Music Mission allows anywhere in the Eastern time zone, and both are tagged remote on the job feed.

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