Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network.  Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors.  Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally.  Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists.  These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE ROLE

The Core Data Services org serves primarily internal customers comprised of business units and analytics teams across the entire Live Nation enterprise. Within Core Data Services, our Customer Enablement Team is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with all those customers to help us create the data solutions required to power each team or initiative to serve artists, our fans, and the business. In this role, you will drive strategic thinking and cross-functional alignment around data-driven approaches to optimize product and marketing efforts (including experimentation) based on current state data, historical operational data, entity relationships, lifecycle stages, and other critical attributes or customer needs. You will perform deep exploration of data across our business, provide high value analyses, and inform other actionable analysis and modeling. A significant portion of this analysis will be in identifying and reconciling differences in data from different systems that must be aligned in a centralized global data lake—this is of particular importance when handling and analyzing international data (i.e. US, EU, APAC, Brazil, etc.). You will also work with the Business Intelligence (BI) team to provide valuable views and data products for downstream users across multiple functions, again with particular emphasis on combining data from multiple countries. In so doing, you will be a key partner with cross-functional stakeholders to better understand our users and internal customers to create an accurate, data-driven business picture of our global landscape as well as our future opportunities.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Conduct data analysis to identify or reconcile data differences among different platforms, including multiple international data lakes and sources, each containing source of truth elements that must be combined into a single authoritative global data platform.
• Collaborate with and provide additional Product leadership for the BI Team to ensure optimized data architectures and valuable data products.
• Assist with data validations in ongoing data migration projects such as moving to newer versions of Google Analytics, changing data lake vendors, or updating source systems’ transactional databases.
• Conduct ad-hoc data analysis to evaluate emerging trends, opportunities, and hypotheses.
• Identify valuable views and data products for business intelligence (BI) users, analytics teams, marketers, strategy teams, and other analysts.
• Use and analyze data from multiple large-scale data warehouses and present statistically strong analysis to a wide range of business stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvements to our products, tools, and processes by sharing learnings, constructive feedback, and input with internal technical and analytics teams.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the analytics needs of the international business, the global business context of the data, and the data/tooling landscape and roadmap.
• Design data models to best support analytics needs of the business, consistent with data strategy principles.
• Partner with Architecture and Governance teams to maintain accurate documentation.
• Automate manual analysis processes and present back on time and resource gains.
• Independently learn new technologies to best identify valuable data products for the business as well as resolve data accuracy and report production issues.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• 5+ years’ experience in Data Analysis or Business Intelligence in an entertainment or B2C environment, including strong proficiency (5+ years) in SQL and Python
• Strong experience with synthesizing large data sets into trends to drive strategic business decisions and hypothesis evaluations (experience with CPRA and GDPR is a plus)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with focus on quality and attention to detail; able to develop and use structured approaches to identify root causes and recommend resolutions
• Excellent pattern recognition, and a general curiosity to uncover and evaluate data anomalies
• Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills; ability to narrate complex stories with data and be concise with insight about how the data drives outcomes for leadership and stakeholders
• High level of autonomy in a global, fast-paced environment, with excellent time management skills to resolve multiple interrupt-driven priorities concurrently
• Committed and able to adapt quickly; ability to work autonomously while ensuring that new knowledge is shared with other teams
• Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity; “no job too big or too small” mentality
• Extensive knowledge of data management and analysis tools including Databricks, Snowflake, Domo, and Tableau (Teradata and Cognos a plus; Splunk, Kibana, DataDog, New Relic, or other monitoring tools an huge plus)
• Proficient in A/B/n testing (experience in tools like Amplitude or Split.io a plus)
• A good understanding of statistical modelling knowledge or any machine learning technique knowledge is a plus (regression, logistic regression, random forest, etc.)
• ETL and streaming data orchestration experience a plus (PySpark experience a huge plus)
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance)
• Passion for live music and the concert experience

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings

Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking will evolve based upon updated regulations and factors related to COVID-19. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test within [24] hours of entering an office.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion.  You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work.  We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife.  As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with.  It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. 

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant  consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.  Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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