Data Scientist, Music

At Epidemic Sound we are reinventing the music industry. Our carefully curated catalog, with over 35,000 tracks, is tailored for storytellers, streaming services, and in-store soundtracks. Countless clients around the world, from broadcasters, production companies, DSPs, and YouTubers rely on our tracks to help them tell their stories. Epidemic Sound’s music is heard in hundreds of millions of online videos daily, across millions of playlist streams, and in thousands of in-store locations. Headquartered in Stockholm, we’re spread across offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Seoul, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. We’re growing fast, have lots of fun, and are taking the music industry with us.

We are now looking for an experienced Data Scientist. Actually. You can call yourself Data Analyst, Data Guru, Analytics Enthusiast or Easter Bunny if you like, the thing is: we have data and you are good at data.

How you will make an impact

As a Data Scientist at Epidemic Sound, you will work to take our analytics capabilities to the next level. You will help build our data- and analytics capabilities, influence the company through data-driven insights and help soundtrack the world.

As a Data Scientist working with the Music Department, you will work directly with metadata and performance KPIs connected to our music. You strive to answer key questions about our core asset and how we should grow our catalog of music. Your purview also overlaps with those observing how users interact with our music. Summarized, your work facilitates our growth as a business, our roster of Artists & Music Creators' growth as individuals, and our product's ability to attract & retain users via music.

In this role, you will play a key role in building the research capabilities of a growing team. You will cooperate with analysts embedded in various teams/departments and make sure we have a holistic view of our business areas.



Who you are

You should be skilled in data analysis, visualization, communication and parsing commercial opportunities from vast amounts of data using SQL, R, Python, pencils, recycled paper, and whiteboards. We also believe you have a passion for data, tech and music, love an entrepreneurial start-up vibe and that you are strong in quantitative analysis, statistics or mathematics. You are a fast learner with a collaborative disposition and have the ability to draw business insights to add real value to the business. You should have recent experience in dealing with large, real-world datasets from a digital, data-driven environment and a drive to make an impact.

Other skills we believe you have:

- Experience in a similar data scientist role and a degree in science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline
- Fluency in Python or R for data analysis
- Experience performing analysis with large datasets
- Excellent understanding of SQL
- Good understanding of cloud technologies. We use GCP
- Ability to demonstrate hands-on experience with data mining, clustering, segmentation, and machine learning
- Experience with content acquisition analytics is a plus
- Good understanding of data engineering practices and data modeling, we use DBT today
- Fluency in English
- Merit to those with significant experience from a growing product-focused company
- Merit to those with significant experience from DBT


Curious about our music? Find our music on Spotify here → https://open.spotify.com/user/... (https://open.spotify.com/user/epidemicsound)

We have lots of fun soundtracking the world and our annual Spring Bash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnVp17IvAg) is an event that captures this perfectly. Take a look at our most recent one, a virtual celebration!



Application

Do you want to be a part of our fantastic team? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link below.

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.