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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

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The suggested salary for this position is $184,100-$225,000*

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User Researcher - Freemium job at Spotify

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With insights, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

We are looking for a User Researcher to join a team of User Researchers and Data Scientists working across the Spotify freemium experience. All of this in service of our mission to elevate the audio experience for both creators and fans. You will be part of the multidisciplinary Freemium Insights team; a fun loving and engaging group of highly motivated people specialising in User Research and Data Science.

As part of our team, you will lead insights projects that support our growth strategy and product development in emerging markets. You will work in a cross-disciplinary team of designers, engineers and product managers; ideating, designing and building new experiences and propositions, and adapting existing ones, for our existing and prospective listeners and creators across the world. We are looking for someone whose passion is to study different cultures and trends and who brings structure and framework thinking to seemingly complex problem spaces.

What You'll Do

Plan and conduct exploratory and evaluative user research across different problem spaces with our team focused on emerging markets
Deliver high confidence insights that enable evidence-based decisions, shape strategies and develop hypotheses for product innovation
Build trusted relationships with design, product, engineering and marketing partners to drive impact from your research and build relevant Spotify freemium experience for audiences around the world
Inspire teams by employing a wide range of frameworks and storytelling techniques to communicate results and recommendations to product, design and engineering teams.
Participate in and contribute to the broader insights community at Spotify by sharing knowledge, expertise, mentoring and improving processes

Who You Are

You are a skilled qualitative researcher, with a passion for cultural research and experience working across a variety of user research tools
You have international research experience, covering markets in North Asia and/or the Global South
You are comfortable with ambiguous and unstructured questions and know how to break them down into actionable and concrete research work streams
You are a framework thinker; comfortable translating complex data sets into structured thinking and insights
You have a people-focused mentality and will passionately advocate for the Spotify listeners.
You are committed to communicating insights in a compelling manner, employing storytelling to paint a picture, build understanding and inspire.
You are comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple offices and timezones

Where You'll Be

We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location
Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here

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.

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.

Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure

Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

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