Data Scientist Intern (6 months)

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

We are in search of a Data Scientist Intern (6 months duration) from Jun to Dec'26 based in Singapore.

Projects You’ll Do:

• Micro-genre trends 
  • Apply data science techniques to tag micro genres from Spotify public API to local repertoire on Luminate Data (2022 onwards), to size up and trend micro-genres 
  • Identify micro-genres with rapid growth potential in 2027
  • Ideal outcome: Deploy machine learning to predict local microgenre trend annually, if not quarterly - depending on the assessed speed of change 
  • First Tier markets: Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines 
  • Second Tier markets: Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia 
• Content tagging at scale 
  • Build scraper to crawl TikTok and Instagram or our subscribed tool, MelodyIQ to scale up content trend analysis - spotting new content trends in each market every quarter 
  • This was done for YouTube content previously 
• Catalog decay rate 
  • Model to calculate catalog decay rate if we were to purchase local catalog, so that we do not pay at an excessive valuation 

What You Bring:

• Interest in music or entertainment industry
• Currently pursuing a degree in Data Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL or R for data analysis
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and libraries (eg. NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn)
• Understanding of data visualization tools (e.g. Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau).
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and teamwork skills

Interested? Please follow the link to submit your application today!
Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

About us:

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.

Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans.

UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world.

 

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