SoundCloud

Senior Data Analyst

SoundCloud$130K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, or data science; experience in relevant industries like streaming or gaming is a plus.
  • Expertise in SQL and experience with large data sets on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
  • Proficiency in analytics engineering tools like Apache Airflow, Dataform, or dbt.
  • Skilled in data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
  • Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests; familiarity with tools like StatSig or Optimizely is beneficial.
  • Strong analytical skills with familiarity in statistical methods and predictive modeling for churn and retention.
  • Excellent communication skills with a knack for translating complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage data to provide strategic recommendations and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Conduct exploratory data analyses to identify user needs and pain points for product teams.
  • Design and run hypothesis-driven experiments to boost user engagement and growth.
  • Communicate insights through compelling narratives and visualizations to various stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with finance and strategy teams to analyze performance metrics and enable informed business decisions.
  • Ensure data quality and consistency by partnering with analysts, engineers, and product managers.
  • Create and maintain dashboards and reports to share best practices across the organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, plus mental health resources.
  • Robust 401k program to support long-term financial health.
  • Participation in the Employee Equity Plan.
  • Generous professional development allowance to support continuous learning.
  • Flexible vacation and holiday policy offering up to 35 days of PTO annually.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all employees, regardless of gender.
  • Creativity and Wellness benefit for personal growth activities, plus free snacks and lunch in the office.
Full Job Description
SoundCloud is looking for a strategic Senior Data Analyst to join our Data & Insights team. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure accurate data capture, translating that data into insights that drive product innovation and monetization. You will use your advanced SQL skills, analytical mindset, and storytelling abilities to uncover user behavior patterns, identify opportunities, and measure the impact of new features/functionality through experimentation. You will also create dashboards and insights reports to communicate your findings and recommendations to various stakeholders, from product managers and engineers to leadership and executives. Drawing on your strong commercial sense, you'll partner across functions to shape the product and go-to-market decisions that fuel the expansion of our content ecosystem. **Key Responsibilities:** - Leverage content economics, subscription performance, and user behavior data to deliver strategic recommendations to product and business stakeholders; define and track core KPIs to guide critical product and business-lifecycle decisions. - Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify the opportunity space for the product teams based on user needs, preferences, pain points & friction in the user journeys. - Design and execute hypothesis-driven experiments on creator tools and features to maximize user growth, engagement, and retention. - Communicate data-driven insights & recommendations to product, engineering, design, and leadership teams using clear and compelling narratives, visualizations, and presentations. - Partner across finance, strategy, and commercial leadership to track core business performance, investigate tactical or strategic shifts in revenue and performance metrics, and deliver data-driven insights that support operational efficiency and strategic business decision-making. - Collaborate with other analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and product managers to ensure data quality, consistency, and alignment across different data sources and platforms - Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and documentation to share best practices, learnings, and institutional knowledge across the organization. **Experience and Background:** - 5+ years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or a related field. Direct experience within Commerce, subscriptions, freemium based businesses, streaming services, Social, Commerce, Gaming is a plus. - Expertise in SQL and experience working with large-scale data sets on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS. - Experience with analytics engineering tools such as Apache Airflow, Dataform, dbt, etc. - Proficiency in data visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI. - Familiarity with event tracking, design and tag management solutions such as Segment, GTM, Adobe Launch, Tealium, etc. - Experience in designing, running, and analyzing complex A/B tests and experiments using one or more of the leading experimentation solutions. i.e. StatSig / Optimizely / Target. - Strong analytical skills and ability to apply statistical methods such as hypothesis testing, regression analysis, clustering, forecasting. Experience building churn and retention prediction models is a plus. - Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations for different audiences. - Curiosity and passion to find & elevate the data narratives and exercise influence to drive change. - Experience in mentoring and training analysts and non technical stakeholders. - Passion for music and interest in understanding user behavior and preferences in the music domain. The salary range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below! **Benefits:** - Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources - Robust 401k program - Employee Equity Plan - Generous professional development allowance - Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit! - Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually - 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children - Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

About SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a music streaming platform that allows users to upload, promote, and share audio. The platform was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. SoundCloud offers both free and paid subscription plans, with the paid plans offering additional features such as ad-free listening and offline playback. The company has faced financial difficulties in recent years, with reports of layoffs and a potential acquisition by Spotify. Despite these challenges, SoundCloud remains a popular platform for independent musicians and podcasters.
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400 employees
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Founded
2007

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