Quantitative Research Analyst

Job Description

Activision Blizzard Media is a rapidly growing business created to connect advertisers with our 350M+ global player base across Activision, Blizzard and King.

The initial goal of this growing start-up effort has been to build premium, innovative advertising experiences for extraordinary casual mobile games like King's Candy Crush Saga. Looking ahead, we plan to launch advertising across the Activision Blizzard portfolio, including high growth areas like esports. This is a really exciting time to join this growing business.

Your role within Activision Blizzard Media

You will be responsible for delivering advanced data science analyses within the measurement and insights team of our advertising business. Responsibilities include marketing analytics, methodological vetting of third party measurement solutions, ad hoc data queries, and assisting our data science team with delivering internal data for the needs of the sales, marketing, measurement, and insights teams.

This role will work within the Data Science discipline of the Marketing, Measurement, & Insights (MMI) team to inform and carry out the roadmap for quantitative research related to ad effectiveness at ABM.
• Develop data pipelines using SQL in order to help readily provide metrics that inform findings for MMI & Sales on the efficacy of the platform.
• Assist with ad hoc analysis and large scale meta analysis to determine best practices among advertising campaigns to yield successful branding and offline sales lift outcomes.
• Perform ad hoc data queries and statistical analyses to provide audience insights to internal and external constituents.
• Use advanced statistical modeling techniques to unlock deeper psychological and behavioral insights about our gaming audience.
• Manage projects end to end including the creation of technology and tools that aid in the creation of insights for the Marketing, Measurement, and Insights (MMI) team.
• Assist in QA of existing tools and management of projects assessing the methodological decisions of our analyses and tools.

Skills to create thrills

As an expert in data science techniques and rigorous quantitative analytics, this role will infuse quantitative rigor and insight into broader measurement and marketing initiatives.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Strong SQL skills, up to joining techniques, windowing functions, and array / struct functions in any dialect; Google BigQuery a plus
• Experience with data manipulation in either Python/R
• Knowledge of analytics and inferential statistics.
• Knowledge of VCS (e.g. Git) and some understanding of git strategics (e.g. gitflow, oneflow)
• Strong sense of algorithmic imputation and efficiency; able to merge statistical principles with reproducibility and productization
• Excellent ability to communicate analytics to a non-technical audience

Bonus Points
• BA/BS in quantitative discipline such as data science or computer science.
• Some experience in visualization of data in R (ggplot2) or Python (preferably Altair). Willingness to learn visualization best practices
• Experience in driving an analytic plan from gathering of data to insights and business savvy recommendations drawn from the inferential analytic models
• Strong presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders, with a focus on explaining both the methodology and insights derived from statistical models
• Interest in gaming across a variety of platforms (mobile, console, PC, etc.) is advantageous

About Activision and Our Family of Brands

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one (or more!) of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Malmö, Seattle, San Francisco and Stockholm along with offices in Chicago, LA, Malta, New York, and Tokyo. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) which acquired King in February 2016.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb89vk-18-119-126-80-42 in your application.