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Founded in 2001, Resident Advisor (RA) is one of the world's longest-running music media brands and a cornerstone of the dance, electronic and DJ ecosystem. The site's audience of over 6 million monthly users is drawn in by a combination of news, editorial, club listings and ticketing, RA-branded events at venues and festivals worldwide, original films and a weekly mix series that has run for 18 years.

Purpose of the role:

We’re looking for a Lead Analyst to own and evolve our company-wide data strategy and infrastructure. This role sits at the centre of the business, responsible for ensuring we have a single, trusted source of truth across all functions, and that our data is being used to drive smarter decisions, more powerful products, and operational clarity.

This role will report hard-line to the CPTO and dotted-line report to the CEO. You will act as the primary point of contact for all analytics work across the business—from strategic planning to triaging day-to-day data requests. You will oversee and align embedded analysts across finance, revenue, and growth while ensuring a coordinated, high-trust analytics function. You will also work closely with the EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) teams to shape and activate our data environment.

The right candidate will not just maintain our data systems, but make our data useful , make insight easy , and make the business smarter . You’ll embed yourself across functions, champion high-quality and governed data, and help bring AI and analytics into meaningful, everyday use.

Key responsibilities:

• Take a hands-on role in delivering high-impact analysis — building dashboards, reports, data models, and visualisations that help teams across RA make informed decisions.
• Serve as a central integration point between revenue, product, editorial, and operational teams, ensuring analytics work is joined-up and high-impact.
• Create and maintain scalable processes for handling internal data requests, investigations, and reporting, ensuring consistency, visibility, and documentation.
• Identify and fill process gaps — ensuring recurring requests are documented, repeatable, and aligned with a single source of truth.
• Lead and support embedded analysts across the business, even where they are not direct reports — helping to align work, encourage best practices, and raise the overall analytics standard.
• Define and drive our company-wide data strategy — including ownership of infrastructure, tooling, quality, governance, access, and compliance.
• Ensure there is a single source of truth across all departments, with consistent metrics, definitions, and data workflows.
• Work closely with product, engineering, and design to shape and evolve our data infrastructure — ensuring it scales with the business and supports our ambitions.
• Translate complex business questions into structured analytics projects and clear insights that guide decision-making.
• Build a strong data culture — fostering high trust in data systems and outputs, and helping teams feel confident using them.
• Explore and guide the responsible use of AI tools (e.g. OpenAI, embeddings, RAG pipelines) to unlock value from structured and unstructured data.
• Strong experience constructing complex and performant queries, with an eye on scalability and efficiency.
• Proven ability to uncover insights using statistical techniques and present findings clearly and intuitively for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience as a senior or lead analyst, ideally in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to lead by influence across teams and functions, and to mentor analysts without always having formal line management.
• Strong command of data infrastructure and analytics tools (e.g. dbt, Preset, Snowflake, Looker, experimentation platforms).
• Practical understanding of AI APIs and tools to support smarter workflows and automation.
• A systems thinker who can architect scalable analytics functions and build confidence in data at all levels of the organisation.
• Skilled communicator who can simplify complexity and bring clarity to decisions.
• Enthusiastic about applying data to improve outcomes for users, internal teams, and the business overall.

What we offer you:

• Generous annual leave policies aimed at promoting work-life balance.
• Flexibility in working arrangements, offering hybrid or remote work options based on role requirements and location.
• Matching pension schemes and/or 401k.
• Comprehensive staff wellbeing initiatives, featuring regular activities and workplace programmes to support mental and physical health. This includes discounted Classpass memberships, and custom-fitted earplugs.
• Company-led social events, team lunches, and discounts on RA merch.
• Paid annual volunteering allowance, encouraging contributions to community projects and charities you care about.
• Regular company-wide Q&A’s with senior leadership, along with ongoing virtual educational training sessions for all staff.

As an independent company run by devoted dance music enthusiasts, our mission is to bring together the world's electronic music communities. Our Global Contributor Network (GCN) and international teams help us establish connections with hyper-niche local scenes.

We became B-Corp certified in 2024, which counts us among businesses leading a global movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy and part of a community that meets high social and environmental impact standards.

We especially welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, experiences, gender identities, and sexual orientations. We aim for our team to reflect the communities we engage with. We ensure everyone is valued and respected by actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in our workplace.

Our values:

• Electronic music is art.
• We celebrate the progressive values that underpin electronic music.
• We advocate for a more inclusive and equitable electronic music community.
• We honour the past, present and future of electronic music.
• We use innovation to empower the community.
• We choose honesty over gain and purpose over profit.
• We're always front left.

This role is a full-time position based in Manchester. The annual salary range for this role is£45,000 – £65,000 If you have questions about the role, please contact work@ra.co .

This listing will be open for a minimum of two weeks from the 12th May 2025. Please be sure to add work@ra.co to your contacts and check your junk/spam folder for emails from us.