About The Role  

 

beatBread is currently seeking a talented and motivated Business Analyst to help track and report key measures and guide the business in its continued growth and success. The Business Analyst is a pivotal role responsible for leveraging data, analytics, and trends to enhance performance and drive informed decision-making across the Product and business organizations. This analyst will report to beatBread’s Head of Product, with a “dotted line” to the CEO, while collaborating closely with the Senior Manager of Finance.  Efforts and workload will be divided across product-driven performance and funnel metrics, analysis of customer research, financial analysis to support the prioritization of new feature development and other ad hoc business analytics.   Salary range of $70k - 100k plus benefits and equity.

Location: Los Angeles, California 

  

Responsibilities include: 

• • Understand disparate sources of product, sales, customer, and competitor data available. 
  • Market and customer research.
• • Define and source metrics underlying a variety of business / product initiatives, collaborating with the finance team regarding cost, effort and payback. 
• • Collaborate with technology, finance, and business stakeholders to create automated dashboards reporting on company-level KPI's, product health metrics, and other performance monitoring tools.  
  • Propose and lead process improvements related to data compilation, gathering, publication and sharing, in close coordination with technology, finance and business stakeholders.
• • Develop funnel conversion and CRM metrics to inform optimization efforts based on useful customer segmentations. 
• • Support various internal teams with key insights on a regular cadence via reports, presentations and robust storytelling techniques. 
• • Other relevant duties as necessary .
     

Minimum Qualifications 

• • Minimum 3 years of business analytics or related experience 

• • Strong mathematical skills to help collect, measure, organize and analyze data. 
• • Exceptional skills with Microsoft Office to include Excel, Word and Powerpoint 
• • Proven strategic thinking and analytical skills to support scenario analysis 
• • Understands and lives a “customer first” mentality with empathy, pragmatism and a hands-on approach 
• • Open minded, team player with a sense of humor 
• • Proven verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tell stories with data. 
• • Accuracy and attention to detail 
• • Self-motivated—striving for personal and team success. 
• • Can work independently and juggle multiple projects simultaneously. 
• • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, plays well in the sandbox in a fast moving and sometimes ambiguous environment.

 

Compensation and Company Benefits 

• The range for this position, experience dependent, will be between $70,000 to $100,000. 
• In addition to salary, full-time employees receive a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, a 401k, and equity in a venture backed and growing business.

 

Candidate Profile 

The ideal candidate will be reliable, hardworking, thoughtful, and enthusiastic.  They will have a presence that includes assertiveness, strong business judgment and an ability to influence others at all levels without requiring reporting relationships.  A "roll up the sleeves" mentality and attention to detail are particularly important for this role, as are the confidence and humility to ask for help when needed. While we work fast and deliver quality work, we also make certain personal time is protected and honored. Individuals with a respectful, slightly informal, collaborative style and who possess a growth mindset, toward their own development, towards their colleagues, and the Company at large, tend to do best in our culture.    

 

Moderate flexibility in the work environment and schedules are common in our company, as quality work deliverables and end-product focus are the most important for our team. 

 

About beatBread 

 
The Concept 

beatBread is a technology driven platform that enables funding for artists, labels, composers, and other key music industry participants.  Creators always have the option to retain long-run ownership of their Music when they seek funding from beatBread, and receive transparent, flexible funding options. Instead of listening to each artist's Music and guessing whether they will grow or not, we feed streaming and fan-engagement data to an optimized machine-learning model to predict artist growth and revenue.  We use these predictions to invest in artists, and, also, to empower music companies, institutions, and high net worth individuals to make their own investments in artists. Investors include leading venture capital firms, including Deciens Capital, Mucker Capital and Afore Capital, along with several progressive and innovative music companies.

Why Artists Love What We Do 

Artist’s love beatBread because they can fund their careers without giving up ownership of their Music or the choice of their partners. beatBread's approach also enables us to fund creative people and organizations from those that are "chart toppers" to those who are too small or too "off center" for traditional labels to back.

Because we don't tell artists which marketing, distribution, or creative partners they need to work with, even large, chart-topping artists often find the options we provide more attractive than traditional funding options. 

Company Growth 

Since funding our first artist two years ago, we are now funding more than a deal per day and putting seven figures of advance dollars out in the market each month. Prominent artist service companies have chosen to integrate our platform directly into their products, with major streaming platforms and distributors showing keen interest in partnership.  We have also recently announced a $100M artist funding facility, but will be engaging additional funding sources, including institutional investors and banks, in 2023. 

 

Our Team and Culture 

beatBread is a lucky combination of music business executives with decades of experience, startup folks who love music, data scientists who live to dig into billions of data points, and software developers born to build cool stuff. We are all unified by a mission to help more musicians stay independent and keep control of their work and their careers, and a vision to become the largest source of funding in the global music industry. 

Culturally, we are curious, hardworking, and informal. As a matter of both pragmatism and personal values, we do our best to approach our work and our partners with more humility than many fast growing venture-backed companies, or many entertainment professionals who put image and status ahead of impact and value.