Associate Manager - Marketing Science

Spotify is a leading global music streaming platform that provides over half a billion users with access to an extensive library of songs, podcasts, and audio content. We are looking for a new team member to join our advertising band. As a Marketing Science Associate Manager, you will play a crucial role in developing our advertising business through the creation of audience insights and application of measurement studies for brands and agencies.

What You'll Do

• Shape, drive and execute on research and measurement strategy across key verticals in North America

• Create and deliver research roadmaps that align with vertical and market initiatives, with a constant focus on driving growth and revenue

• Build compelling, multi-source, advertising research stories that educate our sellers, marketers and clients and tout Spotify’s unique value proposition

• Extract insights from large and diversified data sets (1st party and custom research) to provide hypotheses, and use insights to answer sales, marketing, and business development questions

• Partner closely with Sales and other cross-functional partners to build scalable solutions tailored to specific client needs

• Develop new, innovative approaches to data analysis and positioning and strong recommendations that feed into future client strategies

• Evaluate efficiency across Spotify buying channels to share recommendations, success stories, and standard processes

• Influence stakeholders and change behavior to improve business outcomes

• Answer requests with sophisticated advertiser insights stories that include brand/competitor/industry benchmarks across various metrics/media platforms with minimal oversight

• Educate internal and external collaborators on media performance trends and best practices to advise business decisions across our business

• Contribute to Spotify’s point of view regarding new/current research and measurement solutions, and educate our Sales and Marketing teams accordingly

• Present custom thought leadership research and insights at client, agency, and industry events as needed

• Partner cross-functionally to identify and outline top performing campaign tactics, including Spotify formats, audiences, and buying channels, to publish as success stories

• Partner with internal team members and clients regarding training and research consultation

• Collaborate with leadership partners on Sales and/or Marketing initiatives

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of experience in digital advertising research at a research vendor, media owner, advertiser or agency partner.

• Excellent presentation skills and ability to lead and significantly contribute to external meetings with clients

• You understand and have extensive experience in the role of research and measurement to drive incremental advertising revenue

• Proven experience partnering with global advertisers and driving measurement strategy in a given expertise area

• Operates in a transparent fashion to stakeholders and peers, and viewed as approachable regarding challenging talks

• Strong background in quantitative advertising research, with proven skills in crafting and analyzing complex research studies

• High level of experience in running multiple-forms of advertising measurement - Brand Lift, Cross Media, Digital Measurement, and Programmatic channels

• Extremely strong knowledge of the digital marketing ecosystem, measurement capability landscape, and how it all works from a technical perspective

• Extensive experience in data analysis and storytelling, going beyond the “what” to tell the “why” within research results

• Experience with custom survey programming and data analysis software desired

• Self-starter who digs into projects without needing much direction

• A positive and collaborative teammate who values building positive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the US region as long as we have a work location.

• This team operates across PST and EST time zones for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $94,102 to $134,431 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.