Available for permanent & fixed-term roles — see the work page or get in touch
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9 yrs
on large consumer digital products
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65+
news sites under experimentation
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~5%
annual pageview uplift (~£50K+ ad revenue)
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155+
founding members on Socion

Experience

2026 — present
Socion & Socionics Insight

Founder

Building Socion, a Socionics-based matching app that surfaces the named intertype relations between personality types, and maintaining Socionics Insight, the leading English-language Socionics reference. Author of the 16-book Socionics Made Simple series.

2023 — 2025
Reach plc

Senior Data Analyst

Senior member of the experimentation function, providing decision-focused analysis to product and design teams across a portfolio of 65+ consumer news sites.

  • Produced go/iterate/stop experiment readouts and post-hoc evaluations — contributing to a ~5% uplift in yearly pageviews, an estimated £50K+ in incremental ad revenue.
  • Designed a painted-door experiment to quantify subscription appetite at segment level, giving paywall strategy teams concrete demand signals where none had existed.
  • Interpreted noisy and conflicting metrics — separating signal from variance and making assumptions explicit — to restore confidence in outcomes.
  • Built Looker Studio dashboards for behavioural monitoring and analysed feature rollouts, including a Bookmark feature that shipped and remains live.
2021 — 2023
Reach plc

Data Analyst · Experimentation

Led experiments across 65+ websites and ran post-hoc statistical analysis to determine significance and inform product decisions. Evaluated 10–20 experiments per month using BigQuery and Athena.

  • Stepped up as interim Experimentation Manager (2022), leading the team through a delivery gap and helping recruit a permanent hire.
2016 — 2021
Reach plc

Digital Producer → Business Analyst

Progressed from digital production through business analysis and technical support into data. Led the migration of 30 news sites to a new responsive platform in six weeks, then 20+ more over the following six months; managed 300+ email newsletters across the network.

2011 — 2025
Stern Consulting (UK)

Strategic Advisor

Ad-hoc advisory on experimentation, data culture and organisational alignment, primarily during leadership gaps and transition periods.

2004 — 2016
Various

Earlier career — Digital & Business Analysis

Consulting and analyst roles across ecommerce, requirements gathering and web delivery (Digital Bananas, Photomart, Sando Solutions), building the operational foundation for later analytical and product work.

Projects

Independent

Socion

A Socionics-based matching app where you choose the intertype dynamic — Dual, Mirror, Activity and thirteen more — rather than delegating it to an algorithm. Built full-stack in React and Supabase.

155+ founding members5,000+ messages
socion.app →

Socionics Insight

The leading English-language Socionics reference — type profiles, cognitive functions, intertype relations, tools and articles. The free companion to the books.

372 pages
socionicsinsight.com →

Socionics Made Simple

A Kindle series covering every type in the system in depth, alongside the flagship Your Social World Explained — the complete framework in one volume.

17 books22+ years of research
Browse the series →

Long-form writing

Your Social World Explained introduced the SLIDE System, a modernisation of classical Socionics. Escaping the Vulture’s Shadow is a published memoir.

Author
See the books →
Professional — selected work at Reach plc

Experimentation programme

Go/iterate/stop readouts and post-hoc analysis across a 65+ site portfolio, turning contested results into confident product decisions.

~5% pageview uplift~£50K+ ad revenue

Painted-door subscription test

Designed an experiment to quantify subscription appetite at segment level, giving paywall strategy teams concrete demand signals where none had existed.

New demand signal

Bookmark feature

Built the analytical case for a reader Bookmark feature and analysed its rollout. Shipped and still live today.

Shipped · still live

Responsive platform migration

Led the migration of the network’s news sites onto a new responsive platform, then drove a further rollout over the following six months.

30 sites in 6 weeks20+ more after

Skills

BigQuery Athena SQL A/B Testing Experimentation GrowthBook Amplitude Looker Studio GA4 Product Analytics Funnel Analysis Retention Cohorts Dashboards Stakeholder Comms Product Strategy React Supabase Community Building

Education

2000 — 2003
London Met

BSc, Multimedia Technology & Applications

London Metropolitan University.

Recommendations

From colleagues and collaborators on LinkedIn.

Spencer is a consummate professional and entrepreneur with a solid grasp of online and technology.

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William Alldred
B2B Tech Outbound & Content Specialist
Worked with Spencer

I have always known Mr Spencer to be a “Stern” leader — one that I have aspired to and always respected for his great academic charisma and wonderful wit.

RH
Ramnik Halai
Learning Experience Design · Brand & Digital
Studied together

Spencer is a good team player and his writing skills are impressive.

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Alexandra Lupu
Customer Success
Worked with Spencer on the same team

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