Senior Data Scientist

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London, Greater London, England
5-7 Years Experience
Music
The Role
As a Senior Data Scientist at Kobalt, you will develop production-grade ML solutions for the music industry, focusing on royalty collection, talent scouting, forecasting, and anomaly detection while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Job Description:

Kobalt’s founding vision is to make the music industry fairer and more rewarding for our creators. As a Senior Data Scientist at Kobalt, you’ll share this vision, working with stakeholders and engineers across the business to build production-grade ML solutions to ensure that our creators are fairly compensated. 

With access to vast quantities of data from music streaming platforms from across the world, you’ll work with other Data Scientists and engineers to solve problems within the music industry. Key use cases include our entity linkage service to optimise royalty collection, data-driven talent scouting, music revenue forecasting and anomaly detection.

Essentials:

  • An excellent grasp of the Python data stack: pandas, numpy, scipy and sklearn
  • A deep understanding of statistical reasoning and the ability to design and run relevant experiments
  • Experience with leveraging a wide range of machine learning approaches to solve relevant problems
  • The ability to write reliable, well-tested, maintainable code that will stand up in a production environment
  • A strong grasp of SQL for retrieving, transforming and cleaning data
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Comfortable articulating analytical results and modelling approaches clearly and concisely to a wide range of audiences
  • Thrives in a collaborative atmosphere, working with multidisciplinary teams to drive data products and solutions

 Nice to haves:

  • Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
  • PySpark and Scala would be great assets
  • A good understanding of containerisation (Docker)
  • Experience deploying machine learning models in a production environment
  • Experience with data visualisation tools 
  • A love of music and a keen desire to work in the Music industry

What you will get in return:

  • The opportunity to shape technical strategy and work alongside incredibly creative people across the entire business, and to have an impact on the lives of creators all over the world
  • The chance to mentor and develop others eager to learn, making use of your extensive experience and domain knowledge
  • An environment where learning and development is encouraged and expected, with access to self study services
  • Flexible / hybrid working arrangements. We have an office in London for those who need it and we try to meet as a team for planning and social activities where we can
  • Wellbeing - we care about your physical and mental health and offer you subsidised gym memberships, a cycle to work scheme, Calm App and other benefits
  • A great salary in addition to a generous pension scheme (up to 5% matched)

What do we offer:

  • Salary Range: Discuss with the Talent Partner.
  • Flexible working. KTech operates with a hybrid working policy (fully remote possible).
  • 25 days annually.1 additional wellbeing day per quarter. Half day summer Fridays (July and August) & Christmas closure.
  • Meeting free Fridays afternoon outside of the summer months. We use this as dedicated learning time.
  • 5% pension contribution.
  • Health Insurance.

Interview Process and our commitments to you:

  • We are committed to completing the process in 3 working weeks and are willing to be flexible to meet the candidates requirements.
  • We are also committed to providing feedback on each interview no longer than 48hrs after the interview via email, telephone call or ZOOM.

Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As the traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. Our technology enables them to access royalty payments 4x faster while also maximising the royalty collection amounts.

With over 400 employees in 12 offices around the world, Kobalt today represents over 31,000 artists and songwriters, 700,000 songs and 600 publishing companies. Kobalt is proud to work with artists, songwriters, and companies like Childish Gambino, Max Martin, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

Top Skills

Python
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
531 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.

As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.

Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations like AWAL, an alternative to the traditional record label, and AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses.

Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

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