Sr. Analyst, Live Operations Analytics

Job Description

Your Mission is:

The Live Operations Analytics Team is adding a talented Analyst to work directly with our studios and COD Live Services Team. As a member of the Live Ops Team, your mission is to put science into decision making. You'll work closely with designers, engineers, business stakeholders, and analytics peers to derive meaningful insights and recommendations to improve gameplay, design, and commercial decisions.

Responsibilities include:
• Partner with studios to analyze core game systems and implement gameplay analytics in support of the development goals of designers and engineers
• Collaborate with live services team to optimize game feature balance, game economies, and to identify and close out exploits
• As a member of the live operations pod you will analyze player behavior to discover opportunities to improve engagement and monetization
• Work on a cross functional team to support and drive analytics initiatives to inform current and future design and implementation decisions
• Deliver presentations on analytic topics and results to both technical and non-technical audiences

What you will bring to the team?

The ideal candidate will be a motivated data expert who wants to grow their analytics 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:
• Measurable Impact: Consistently demonstrating analytics impact on revenue, engagement, and player experience.
• Relationships: 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 manage your own time, stakeholders, and leadership expectations.
• Translator: Your work speaks for itself; correct, clear, and concise insights leading to action.
• Domain knowledge: As you understand our players' mindset, you are reliably able to qualitatively deduce and draw quantitative conclusions that will directly influence decision making.

Player Skills
• BA/BS degree required with a technical focus (e.g., computer science, physics, engineering)
• Strong technical skills with SQL, R/Python for data analysis and visualization tools – familiarity working in a notebook-based workflow a plus
• Skilled at being able to derive the narrative from the data and tell convincing stories
• Experience managing stakeholder asks, expectations, and relationships across a variety of stakeholders
• Gameplay analysis experiences a plus, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment, ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps

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.
Our World

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The video game industry and therefore our business is fast paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv9qqj-18-116-62-45-42 in your application.