Senior Analytics Engineer, Live Ops

Job Description

Senior Analytics Engineer, Live Ops (Hybrid)

Your Mission is:

The Live Ops Analytics Team is seeking a talented Senior Analytics Engineer to collaborate directly with our analytics teams and studio partners to transform data into actional insights for strategic decision making. As part of the Live Ops team, you will build and maintain data pipelines and systems that enable efficient data analysis across the organization. You'll work closely with designers, engineers, business stakeholders, and analytics peers to build a foundational data layer that helps derive meaningful insights and recommendations, enhancing gameplay design and commercial decisions.

Responsibilities include:
• Partnering with analysts and data scientists to proactively identify and implement analytics solutions in support of the development goals of game designers and engineers.
• Develop and maintain data warehouses to ensure a centralized and organized repository for our analytics teams.
• Employ data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) to create user-friendly dashboards that facilitate informed decision-making and optimization of game features
• Partnering with data engineering, data anlalytics, and data science teams to identify innovative solutions, build and execute project plans, and enhance our reporting capabilities.
• Designing data solutions to ensure data integrity throughout our pipelines and supporting QA of our reports.
• Build, maintain, and optimize ETL workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Establish and enforce data quality standards to ensure the accuracy and reliability of analytics outputs.
• Communicate technical findings and insights to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.

What you will bring to the team?

The ideal candidate will be a motivated data expert who wants to grow their analytics engineering toolset in a fast-paced environment, is focused on delivering value to stakeholders, and has a passion for video games. Your success will be reflected in:
• Improved Efficiency: By designing and optimizing ETL processes. Your work enhances the efficiency of data workflows.
• Relationship Building: As a cross functional team member, team success is a priority. You will rely on your excellent relationship skills to build trust with your internal and studio partners.
• Communication: You will effectively lead communication efforts within analytics engineering projects, ensuring that team members are informed, aligned, and motivated
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify potential challenges, formulating innovative solutions to optimize data workflows and enhance overall speed to insights.
• Documentation Excellence: Create comprehensive and understandable documentation for complex data models, ETL processes, and other technical aspects.
• Domain knowledge: As a data expert, you will share knowledge and insights to contribute to the development of a collaborative and communicative team culture.

Player Skills
• Educational Background: A BA/BS degree in a technical field is required, with a preference for majors in Data Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related areas. Equivalent practical experience is also highly valued.
• Experience: At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in data modeling, warehousing, and the development of ETL pipelines, with a preference for experience in Airflow.
• Technical Skills: Demonstrated expertise in SQL for querying complex datasets. The candidate should possess strong technical skills with a proven track record in data handling and manipulation.
• Data Visualization Competence: Familiarity with creating data visualizations using platforms like Tableau, Looker, or similar tools. The ideal candidate should be capable of handling standard data visualization tasks and translating data into clear, informative visuals, while continuous learning and development in this area will be supported.
• Collaboration and Communication: Strong capability to work alongside business partners, understanding their needs and translating them into strategic and actionable insights. The role demands excellent communication skills to provide solutions and pinpoint areas for improvement.
• Industry-Specific Knowledge (Desirable): Experience in gameplay analytics is a significant advantage. Candidates should have a robust understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies, particularly in the domains of gaming, entertainment, e-commerce services, or mobile applications.

Your Platform

We're headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.

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 $92,920.00 - $171,814.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all US locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. 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-gqxopm-3-147-140-23-42 in your application.