Parcast is looking for a Business Operations lead. The ideal candidate is knowledgeable and passionate about the digital entertainment space in general and podcasts in particular. In this role, you’ll oversee business-side operations for Parcast, with a particular focus on forecasting and planning, measurement and reporting, and most importantly liaising with functional teams across Spotify to help Parcast management maximize the reach, engagement, and value of their audio content.

If you enjoy fast-paced, high-energy environments, thrive in collaborative and passionate teams, love podcasts, and have a track record of multi-tasking and helping to solve complex problems, this is the role for you.

This role is based in the Parcast office in Los Angeles working day-to-day with the Parcast leadership team, and reporting to the Head of Business Operations, Spotify Studios.

This hire will work remote to start, and then from our Los Angeles office.

What You'll Do

• Take ownership over maximizing the value of Parcast content, in partnership with the relevant stakeholder groups at Spotify: driving on- and off-platform audience growth with marketing and content promo, driving ad revenue with our commercial partners, and increasing platform value with our product and audience development teams
• Oversee all aspects of Parcast’s performance metrics in-line with this goal, including budgets, content consumption and performance goals, and much more
• Set, track, and report against these numerical targets, including quarterly forecasting, weekly/monthly financial reports, headcount planning, and content KPIs
• Collaborate with our internal finance and analytics teams to evaluate and communicate performance of organization with regard to operational goals, budgets and forecasts
• Provide insight and recommendations, including internal and external content trends, to inform short- and long-term growth plan and to assist Parcast’s creative leaders in related decision making
• Work alongside Parcast leadership and Licensing to ensure deals are structured to support Parcast’s overall KPIs
• Manage records and reporting for Parcast’s slate of programming
• Facilitate commercial go-to-market in partnership with our sales team
• Collaborate with marketing and content promo teams to apply learnings from promotional efforts and marketing investments for future decision making
• Opportunistically provide the support above to emerging new audio initiatives adjacent to the core Parcast podcast business, potentially including audiobooks and/or live content
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What You'll Bring

• You have 5+ years of experience working in a business operations, finance or consulting role, ideally within the media industry. You have a BA or BS (MBA preferred)
• You have excellent analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills 
• You have outstanding communication and presentation skills 
• You are a self-starter with excellent time-management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 345 million users.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.