The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Daily Mix to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them. We ask that our team members be physically located in Central European time or Eastern Standard/Daylight time zones for the purposes of our collaboration hours.
Location
Boston
Job type
Permanent
We are looking for an extraordinary individual to join our Data Curation team. Our team is responsible for maintaining and curating ground-truth music and audio data that directly impacts the ways millions of people experience content through Spotify. We maintain and improve essential foundational data, and evaluate existing and future features to ensure quality recommendations for Spotify users. Special expertise in music and music culture is fully required.
What You’ll Do:
Work with a team whose focus is content quality and ground truth for recommendation systems and cultural datasets
Generate, curate and improve music related data
Utilize and expand your music knowledge as a deliverable service
Report on progress and completion of curatorial review
Analyze the effect of quality cultural data and audio recs on potential end-users
Who You Are:
You hold a deep understanding of music, particularly a few popular genres of music and its related music culture
You’re experienced with qualitative & quantitative analytics techniques
You’re passionate and opinionated about music
You love large data sets
You have a grasp on emerging musical trends across the globe
You care about the improvement of music discovery and understanding
You’re comfortable achieving individual goals, as well as reaching goals as part of a collaborative group
You possess a sense of humor and optimistic disposition
You enjoy obsessing over the details when it comes to music
You display a strong familiarity with online music services and social networks, including listener trends and the latest developments
Understanding of Sub-Saharan African or Eastern European/Russian music cultures is a plus
You have 2+ years of experience in tech, streaming, or a relevant music industry position
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 and is within working hours.
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
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.
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off – fully paid – for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
Please submit a cover letter and resume in your application. In your cover letter, please make sure to include:
- Why this position as a Data Curator at Spotify is a logical next step in your professional career
- Your personal connection to music and your favorite musical genres
- In a few words, show us why you’re an authority in one of these favorite genres
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 345 million users.
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