Senior Data Analyst, Mobile

Who We Are

Established in 2005, 2K Games is an international video game company, distributing titles crafted by some of the industry’s most influential game development studios. Our teams at Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios develop 2K’s repertoire of exceptional games across a variety of platforms. Our compilation of titles is growing thanks to our global strategy of evolving and acquiring thrilling studios whose content continues to inspire all gamers. 2K presents games in all the current popular genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our crew of engineers, marketers, artists, authors, data researchers, producers, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers are the proficient overseers of our ever-growing library of critically-praised franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we take pride in cultivating an inclusive workplace, inspiring our team to bring out their best work. Our dedication to diversity and acceptance is evident, and we aim for our pool of candidates to mirror this commitment. We welcome all eligible candidates to explore our international roles.

2K’s headquarters are located in Novato, California, and it is a fully owned imprint of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What We Need:

We are looking for a senior data analyst to enable the game Studio behind one of our leading titles to make decisions based on reliable data. The ideal candidate will be accountable for providing data tools, telemetry, dashboards, and compelling insights to steer game development and growth. The right person will have a good balance of business acumen along with analytical and technical expertise.

What You Will Do:

Answering directly to the Senior Director of Mobile Analytics, your responsibilities will include:

• Business Insight: Understanding the challenges our Studios and partners wish to solve, and then determining the accurate data, metrics, analysis, and interpretation leading to the right recommendations and decisions.
• Understand players: Help further our understanding, modelling, predicting, segmenting and retaining our players and enable our Studios to launch new titles and develop features.
• ETL pipeline: Managing the ETL pipeline for one of our top games by working closely with data engineering.
• Telemetry design: Collaborating with our studio developers to create in-game telemetry to measure player behavior.
• Serving as the technical data expert in interactions with stakeholders, providing regular game health updates to stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Creating and maintaining reporting dashboards, supervising data quality, and consolidating data from multiple sources for creating and tracking key KPIs.

What Makes You a Good Match:

• 4+ years of professional experience in data science or analytics role.
• SQL: Ability to write complex SQL queries to analyze our databases housing millions of players and familiarity with relational database systems.
• Familiarity with querying in Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres, etc.
• Analytical coding: Proficiency in coding using languages like Python or R.
• Visualization: Proficiency in at least one visualization tool like Tableau or Looker.
• Tech skills: Proven experience with some or all of the following: statistics, experimental design, machine learning, predictive modeling, deep learning.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced setting with diverse functions and changing priorities.
• Effective collaboration skills with product managers, game designers, game engineers, marketers, and other analysts to deliver clear business impacts.
• Extraordinary attention to detail, natural curiosity, and creative problem-solving ability.
• Effective communication and presentation skills to address both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-starter with the motivation to delve deep into the data, develop analytical hypotheses, and come up with actionable insights for product improvement.

Bonus Points:

• Established track record in data challenges in similar roles, preferably within mobile gaming or similarly customer-oriented digital businesses.
• Familiarity with telemetry/analytics SaaS tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude).
• Familiarity with handling massive data sets and tools to deal with them (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS).
• Experience in behavioral psychology/economics and experimental design.
• Knowledge and passion for NBA and WWE franchises preferred.
• Love for mobile games.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

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