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Game Analyst

San Francisco, California
US$100000 - US$130000 per year

Game Analyst

San Francisco, CA

$100,000-$130,000

THE COMPANY

A large mobile gaming company is looking to add a Game Analyst to their game studios. This company is made up of various studios, all of which create and maintain their own games. This company is very well known in the space and has over 1.5 billion data points flowing in daily from all their various games (a data enthusiasts dream!). If you love mobile gaming and have strong analytical skills, please apply!

THE ROLE:

You will work closely with a gaming studio, helping them understand their users. Your role will be to dig deep into the plethora of dating pouring in from the game and help the creative gaming studio better understand their game and gamers. You will work very closely with Product Manager and game Designers and be the go-to data person for your team. You will have a direct impact on the success of your game. This is a fantastic role for a passionate and skilled analyst to make a huge impact!

  • Work to optimize mobile game performance (in beta and post-launch).
  • Build, automate and maintain dashboards that will be used across the business.
  • Run analyses to help your team understand trends in their games.
  • Create experiments and conduct A/B tests.
  • Work closely with PM's to define business objectives and analytical questions.

ABOUT YOU:

  • You have worked in a product analyst role, ideally within a gaming company.
  • You are a SQL expert - no query is too complex!
  • Extensive experience creating multivariate experiments and designing A/B tests.
  • You have experience building and maintaining dashboards.
  • You have worked cross functionally before, and have no problem collaborating with people from product, creative, or business teams.
  • Proven ability to pull insights out of complex data.
  • Professional experience in predictive modeling.
  • Background in statistics and working knowledge of either Python or R.
  • Bonus points for exposure to ETL pipelines, Hadoop, and AWS.
  • A passion for mobile gaming is a must! There are openings among multiple game teams, including sports, fashion, and cooking.

THE BENEFITS:

Competitive base salary + bonus.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Sonia Manssen via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS:

Marketing Analytics | Product Analytics | SQL | Statistics | Gaming | Mobile Games | R | Python | Tableau | Dashboard |

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