Job Description
Your Platform
Your Mission
The Live Ops Analytics Team is looking for a statistical data science & experimentation expert. As a thought leader and hands on mentor within the Live Ops Team, your mission is to put the science into product decision making.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Being the trusted authority charged with evolving our data science & experimentation roadmap for all science & analytics teams
• Develop novel science and experimentation to deduce and draw conclusions from player behavioral data that directly influences game design, play balance, and retention of our live titles
• Design and implement statistical decision science models along with product experiments to make an impact on our future business decisions, product planning, and personalization
• Provide highly technical leadership and mentorship to our Ph.D data scientists and economists with a wide range of backgrounds
• Democratize and socialize learnings across the organization through executive presentation and by contributing to a centralized repository that informs future game design, and is carried across titles and franchises
• Evangelize data science outside the company to increase company visibility and recruit new talent
Player Profile
Minimum Requirements:
• Advanced degree required with technical focus (Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Economics etc.)
• 10+ years total experience in analytics with 2+ years as a Principal Data Scientist or Director
• Outstanding technical skills with SQL, R/ Python for data analysis and consistent track record of product / feature development resulting from product, A|B testing, deep product sense, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment/ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps a plus
• Demonstrated programming skills either in data science or software development settings a plus
• Authority at deriving narrative from data and communicate the results effectively
• Experience with predictive and prescriptive modeling a plus but not a core responsibility of the role
Extra Points:
• Consistently demonstrates ability to identify and meet the needs of others across the company
• Guiding teams to be agile in response to change and to solve complex problems
• Being active in the industry, recognized for application of science to games & entertainment
• Delivering breakthrough analytical projects resulting in feature development, measurable engagement or revenue impact
• Exemplifies multifaceted abilities – data science, experimentation, analysis, engineering, econometrics etc.
• Being an elite champion for standard methodologies within the analytics, data and engineering teams
• Provides context, not control, remaining highly aligned but loosely coupled
Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.
In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $154,100.00 - $285,084.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb3wnk-3-83-187-36-42 in your application.