Senior Research Economist
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At Spotify Advertising, our part of that mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define the insights product for our business.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
At Spotify Advertising, our mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define the product for our business.
The Ads Economics team is looking for an experienced economist to help build econometric research in Spotify Advertising. We use the science of Economics to shape strategy and products. We do foundational causal inference research and work closely with business partners to inform business decision making.
In this role, you will build econometric solutions to understand connections between advertisers and listeners, perform causal analysis, and estimate impact of our ad products. You will join a centralized Economics team of economists and data scientists to build novel research and concrete insights. If this sounds exciting, please apply!
Who You Are
- You have a Ph.D. in Economics or a similar quantitative field (specialization in Reduced Form Causal Analysis or Empirical Industrial Organization is preferred)
- 2+ years of experience post Ph.D. Prior experience estimating causal impacts of policy/business changes
- Prior experience with a statistical scripting language (Python (preferred), R, or STATA)
- You have experience in running large-scale experiments
- You are a communicative person that values building positive relationships with colleagues and partners and have the ability to explain sophisticated topics in simple terms.
What You'll do
- Lead economic solutions from end to end
- Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity
- Write code (Python, R, SQL, STATA etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze large data
- Build econometric models and design experiments to solve specific business problems
- Work closely cross-functional team of economists, engineers, product owners, and business decisions makers
- Contribute to the strategic leadership of the Advertising business team
- Be a foundational member of the Economics Ph.D. job family at Spotify and contribute to growing the job family throughout the company.
- Communicate insights and recommendations to key partners at the Director, VP, and Executive levels and support external publication of research findings
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
- 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.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
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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.
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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.
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