Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Data Scientist role sits at the intersection of SaaS product analytics and internal platform strategy, focused on developer experience rather than end-user consumer behavior. The work centers on Backstage and Spotify Portal, where an open-source foundation is paired with a commercial SaaS offering—an increasingly common pattern for infrastructure products. That context makes measurement and decision-making especially nuanced, because “success” spans adoption, engagement, and long-term value across varied customer environments.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable leverage: defining core metrics, shaping experimentation, and translating usage data into product direction alongside Product, Design, Research, and Engineering. Experience in this kind of platform domain tends to transfer across B2B SaaS, DevTools, and data-informed product organizations, where influence depends as much on judgment and framing as on statistical technique. It also builds fluency in how SaaS products evolve through lifecycle stages, from early signals to mature optimization.
This position fits data scientists who prefer close partnership with product leadership and are comfortable being opinionated about measurement trade-offs. It will suit professionals who enjoy ambiguous problem spaces, stakeholder communication, and turning telemetry into practical roadmap decisions, particularly in developer-facing SaaS and platform ecosystems.
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Job Description
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
Backstage was born at Spotify to address the challenges of scaling engineering organizations and has since evolved into a leading open source and SaaS platform for building developer portals. Alongside our widely adopted open-source platform, Spotify now offers Portal—our commercial SaaS product—helping companies reduce cognitive load and scale their R&D organizations.
This role sits within PDX Insights, the data science team supporting Platform Developer Experience. We partner closely with Product, User Research, Design and Engineering to help guide the evolution of Backstage and Portal through data-informed decision making.
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What You'll Do- Partner closely with Product Managers to influence roadmaps using product insights
- Be opinionated about what signals matter most at different stages of the product lifecycle
- Define and evolve core product metrics related to adoption, engagement, and long-term value to support product decisions
- Analyze product usage to identify opportunities to improve the developer experience
- Frame success criteria and trade-offs to support product prioritization
- Design analyses and experiments to inform product investments
- Communicate insights clearly to senior stakeholders across Platform
- Contribute to a culture of learning, collaboration, and thoughtful use of data
Who You Are- Have experience influencing product direction with data in complex or evolving product spaces
- Can be pragmatic and opinionated about measurement based on product strategy
- Have solid analytical foundations (SQL, experimentation, statistical reasoning)
- Communicate clearly and enjoy close collaboration with Product, User Research, Design and Engineering
- You enjoy roles where judgment, context, and collaboration matter as much as technical depth.
- Are motivated by impact and enabling teams to make better decisions
Where You'll Be- This role is based in London or Stockholm
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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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.
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.
