Data Scientist

Job Description

Your Platform

Your Mission

The Mobile Analytics Team is adding a talented Data Scientist. As part of the team, your mission is to put science into decision making. Year one responsibilities include:
• Proactively perform data exploration to understand player behavior and identify opportunities for improving in-game features
• Partner with cross functional teams to prioritize areas of opportunity to drive engagement and monetization, and enable easier experimentation
• Develop novel analytics to qualitatively deduce and draw conclusions from player behavioral data that directly influences game design, play balance, retention of our live titles
• Partner with studio and engineering teams to ensure smooth and timely instrumentation of gameplay and mtx measures
• Develop and monitor operational metrics to track the health of a live multimillion-dollar service business
• Measure the impact of features, promotions, store offerings, and events through experimentation and causal inference to fuel recommendations
• Democratize and socialize learnings by contributing to a centralized repository that informs future game design, and is carried across titles and franchises

Player Profile

We are seeking a leader who will contribute to team success by embodying all the characteristics of our culture
• Competently defines execution plans, and suggest projects for prioritization
• Effectively manages own time and stakeholder expectations
• Fosters relationship with our stakeholders and partner teams to increase our sphere of influence
• Contributes to company learnings and proactively documents results
• Participates in feedback conversations with supervisor and peers, and can adapt approach when needed
• Drives measurable engagement and revenue impact through analysis and statistical models

As a high performer you will:

Possess a unique blend of project skills and business savvy; a passion for exceptional execution within a dynamic environment and the flexibility and focus to achieve result
• BA/BS degree required with technical focus (Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineeringor a related quantitative field); MS/PhD a plus
• 1+ years total experience in analytics
• Strong technical skills with SQL, R/ Python for data analysis; demonstrated programming skills either in data science or software development settings a plus
• Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Spark, Presto, Hive)
• Understanding of AB testing, experimentation, and causal inference methodologies
• Experience with predictive and prescriptive modeling a plus
• Skilled at deriving narrative from data and communicate the results effectively
• Good product sense, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment/ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps a plus

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g39kj5-18-116-63-174-42 in your application.