Analyst, Royalty Operations
Core
Implement content licenses in Spotify's proprietary royalty systems, calculate and report royalties to rightsholder partners, and provide analytics to Accounting stakeholders.
Role type
Senior IC data analyst (royalty operations)
Builds
Royalty calculation outputs, downstream datasets, and reporting for music, audiobooks, lyrics, and creator content
Domain
Music streaming / Financial operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
SQL, Python, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, data analysis, contract implementation, financial reporting
Preferred skills
Gen AI, agentic workflows, internal tooling development, label/publisher/audiobook contract knowledge, DSP data files familiarity
Responsibilities
Configure contracts in royalty systems and test financial outputs, lead data analyses for internal teams and external partners, support month-end royalty close by reviewing checks and validating outputs, run month-end analytics and provide commentary on fluxes, help build new capabilities for internal AI tooling, partner with Legal, Commercial Accounting, Content Accounting, and Financial Engineering
