Technical Data Lead

We're aiming for a world where people who care about music can connect deeply, beyond the algorithm, human to human.

Mixcloud is a music streaming service that enables creators to legally live-stream and upload mixes, radio shows, and original tracks for free, so they can organise their music in one place. We build tools to help DJs, radio hosts, musicians and producers build an online community, reach a wider audience and make money from music.

Championing music lovers, we've created an environment where every genre, scene and grassroots movement can thrive without fighting algorithms. Millions of creators, curators, and cultural tastemakers from around the world use our platform to share music and build meaningful connections. Our community of listeners and creators are the heart of the platform.

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This role is ideal for a proactive, self-starter who thrives in a startup environment and is excited to take ownership of key data initiatives. Be the person who changes how an engineering team thinks about data. We're looking for a data champion: someone who raises the bar for how we question, measure, and build. As a data technical lead, you will be accountable for the full spectrum of data analytics on our platform. You'll play a crucial role in both data implementation and analysis, driving our growth strategies and ensuring data integrity. This is an individual contributor role with no people management responsibilities.

• Champion a data-first culture - pushing the team to ask better questions, make smarter decisions, and build with confidence.
• Lead and collaborate with product teams to enhance data literacy and support their analytical needs, ensuring they have the insights required to drive product innovation.
• Ensure data accuracy and reliability through diligent implementation and ongoing monitoring
• Implement and refine analytical touchpoints across the website, including tracking and tagging implementations in Google Tag Manager.
• Build and maintain data pipelines that gather and analyse website metrics and user interaction
• Maintain and continuously develop our self-serve reporting tools to empower product, design, and engineering teams to access and leverage the insights data independently.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to identify growth opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
• Collaborate closely with data, marketing and product teams to help bridge the gap between marketing strategy and technical execution
• Advise, support and coach the team to run rapid, data-driven experiments; Enable us to test, learn, and scale growth initiatives by building the underlying infrastructure and tools needed for sustainable, data-backed expansion.
• Coach engineers on data tracking best practices across the platform.

• Proficiency in Python
• Advanced SQL skills with the ability to write complex queries and optimise database performance.
• Experience with Google Cloud and BigQuery is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Redash, PostHog, and Amplitude is useful.
• Proven experience in implementing data pipelines and conducting in-depth data analysis.
• Ability to translate data into actionable insights that drive business growth.
• Hands on experience with analytics engineering and growth engineering, particularly in rolling out and optimising platform/website analytics.
• Nice to have: Proficiency in Javascript

• You explore new approaches to work, are flexible and continuously learning.
• A detail-oriented, curious self-starter who is comfortable taking initiative and working independently.
• Flexibility to adapt to the dynamic needs of a growing scale up and willingness to tackle a wide range of tasks.
• Location: Based in the UK and able to work full time (5 days a week).

We have a remote first work culture, although we still have an office in London (Brick Lane) available for anyone to use. This includes an onsite cafe and access to cultural events; Weekly members' drinks, Monthly and Monthly Community Lunch. Weekly wellness events (yoga, meditation boxing etc). We're a culturally active bunch, with many of us pursuing our passions as DJs, radio hosts or creatives.

We cater weekly lunches and host quarterly team on sites and social team mixers. We offer a great benefits package that includes generous holiday, flexible working, and healthcare benefits. We offer a culture of personal development and growth. We're serious about encouraging our employees to develop their careers through goal setting, training, and mentorship. All employees have access to an online Academy with 100+ Live & On Demand Classes.

Mixcloud is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.