Data Scientist, Company Planning & Execution at Spotify · London
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BigQuery
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dbt
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Looker
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Python
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5+ years of experience
How your experience adds up to what they ask for (5+ years), and the parts most like this job.
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Languages: English
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Curious about how organisations work — not just the data, but the decisions and systems behind it.
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Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across levels and functions.
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Able to take messy, complex datasets and turn them into clear recommendations and stories that land with non-technical audiences.
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Where You'll Be
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This role is based in London.
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We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best, with 2–3 days per week in the office.
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: BigQuery is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: dbt is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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