Advanced Analyst

Job Description

Full Circle is hiring an Advanced Data Analyst in Vancouver, or remote within North America, as part of our Studio Data & Insights (SDI) team. Reporting to the Director of Analytics for Full Circle, you will be part of a growing team that provides impactful analysis with relevant takeaways for our studio partners.

What an Advanced Data Analyst does at Full Circle
Our team strives to be the voice of the player by discovering insights that improve the player experience. We do this by exploring a rich landscape of behavioral gameplay data and combining it with qualitative data from partner teams in User Research, Consumer Insights, and more. As an Advanced Data Analyst, you will design, prioritize, and execute analytics projects for multiple feature teams across the studio, and partner with them to turn your findings into action. These projects may include feature analysis, onboarding analysis, player segmentation, text analytics, geospatial analysis, retention modeling, building self-serve data products, A/B experiments, and more.

You will share your findings directly with the development team, ranging from 1:1 chats up to studio-wide presentations. Many different disciplines will rely on you as a trusted source of information, including Product Management, Game Design, Engineering, Studio Executives, Brand Management, Marketing, and Finance. As part of working with a diverse group of partners, you will gain exposure to different perspectives inside the gaming industry.

As a team of analysts and researchers, we understand how important learning and growth are. In addition to working with our studio partners at Full Circle, you will have many opportunities to collaborate and share with hundreds of other data experts as part of the larger data analytics community at EA.

Responsibilities:
• Provide recommendations on solutions to analytics needs using player data from multiple sources
• Navigate ambiguous problems, determine causes and constraints, translate qualitative/quantitative data into applicable insight, and create recommendations / outcomes
• Elevate the studio's data maturity through creation of powerful self-serve tools and training non-data-professionals in their use
• Mentor more junior analysts throughout the analytics process by employing best practices such as coding standards, code reviews and peer reviews to achieve high-quality outcomes

Requirements:
• 7+ years experience in an analytical role performing quantitative analysis with big data
• 3+ years experience managing your own deliverables and producing high quality results, building analytics plans with clear deliverables, ownership, and communication plans
• A Masters degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, mathematics, engineering, economics), or equivalent experience
• Proficient in SQL and ability to extract data from large data sources with differing structures• Proficiency with a statistical analysis tool (such as R or Python) to perform analysis
• Experience defining goals, their associated reporting, and communicating their interpretation to the business
• Experience leading and coaching presentations to wide audience of diverse skillsets, including senior management

Considered a Plus:
• Experience with Google Big Query and Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with version control and reproducible research best practices
• Experience defining telemetry schemas for Mobile or HD games
• Experience developing dashboards and data models within Looker
• Passion for playing and thinking about games

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1be7e-18-226-28-197-42 in your application.