Data Scientist - Content Understanding

London March 7, 2026 Full Time Lever

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.

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