Director, Analytics - Asset Risk and Portfolio Management

Overview: 

Spotter, named one of TIME100's Most Influential Companies this year, empowers top YouTube creators to accelerate their business and unleash their full creative potential by giving them access to the capital, knowledge, and community they need to succeed at scale. As the top provider of creator-friendly growth capital, Spotter tailors our investments to meet the unique needs of each creator we partner with, giving them the freedom to create without compromise.

Creators are free to reinvest their funds however they choose, from hiring a team, to building their own production studios, and everything in between, all while maintaining total control over their catalogs, their channels, and their future earnings. In addition to funding, Spotter provides creators with in-depth data insights into the performance of their existing content, enabling them to leverage the full value of their library, as well as the value of future uploads and how they can improve performance in the future.

Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Variety, Axios, and more, Spotter has already deployed over $850 million to YouTube creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth. Spotter has licensed content that consists of over 725,000 videos, which generate 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes. With our curated premium video catalog, we deliver a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe.

What You’ll Do:

The Director, Analytics - Asset Risk and Portfolio Management plays an important, highly visibility role in daily operations and strategic decisioning at Spotter. The position will be tightly integrated with the highest level of leadership team in assessing the performance of Spotter’s portfolio, platform-level trends, and proactively providing insights and alerts about potential changes.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor asset performance, risk tolerance metrics, and perform in-depth portfolio analysis of a $700MM+ portfolio of unconventional assets and present key findings and recommendations to company leadership.
• Evaluate and adopt new and existing tools and portfolio management techniques to effectively identify and assess portfolio trends and risks.
• Proactively and reactively create in-depth analyses and prepare reports including but not limited to portfolio concentrations, asset pricing exceptions, stress testing, and high-risk exposures.
• Construct tests and learn plans that quantify the impact of new initiatives.
• Evaluate asset performance in the context of platform level trends and share macro learnings across analytics teams.
• Support and train junior team members on tools and technical tasks to guide their learning while supporting the organizational analytics needs.
• Build partnerships across functions such as finance, content operations, ad sales, and finance. Create and sustain a network of strong relationships.

Who You Are:

• • BS in a technical or math-oriented discipline
  • 6 - 10 years of work experience in analytical/quantitative roles
  • Expert level proficiency in Excel, particularly pivot tables, power pivots, data models
  • Expert level proficiency using SQL and/or Python/R for ad-hoc analysis
  • Ability to troubleshoot data-related issues
  • Strong storytelling skills for technical and non-technical audiences
  • Proficient in PowerPoint and / or Google Slides

  Note: Due to the proliferation of similarly capable business products today, skills in equivalent products are acceptable.

Preferred:

• Management Consulting/Investment Banking backgrounds.
• Experience managing a large asset portfolio
• Knowledge of the YouTube or Content Creator industry
• Experience with data visualization tools in any of the following:
• Power BI
• TIBCO Spotfire
• Looker
• Tableau

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to understand and analyze data and communicate findings to stakeholders
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to break down complex questions
• High level of comfort with quantitative concepts
• Strong attention to detail
• Best-in-class analytical/critical/creative thinking skills
• Ability to thrive in entrepreneurial environments with multiple projects and evolving priorities
• Work independently/remotely with little oversight
• Forge relationships at all levels of the company

Why Spotter:

• Medical and vision insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental insurance
• 401(k) matching