OK, I was kidding about the “Stan programmer” thing. But not really kidding. According to the job announcement:

The Data Science department works to influence WMG’s strategy and optimize immediate and long-term operations through data and insights. . . . This person in this role will be WMG’s expert in data science for Audience, will help create a deep institutional understanding for how our fan segments interact with and explore our music. The person in this role will:

• Help to establish best practices for curating and encouraging resonant consumption of WMG’s catalog repertoire & breaking hits;

• Gauge the impact of marketing initiatives and campaigns upon audience segments; be the subject matter guide to understanding listener behavior;

• Shape music content creation and delivery from a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of how, where, and when people listen to music given modern delivery and consumption of media.

They list proficiency in Stan as one of the attributes they’re looking for. In all seriousness, being able to fit serious Bayesian models in Stan should be helpful to attack the problems they’re working on at Warner Music Group.

Also, you’ll report to the Senior Vice President of Data Science—that’s Kobi! Kobi’s a serious dude, I’m sure he’d be a great boss.

P.S. I did some wikipedia surfing and it seems that Warner Music Group handles R.E.M., and Nickelback too! So you really can’t go wrong there.