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Data Analyst – GAMING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE NEEDED - REMOTE - HIRING ASAP

Start date – ASAP
Duration – 18 months
Location: Remote
Rate: £240 - £300 per day
Engagement: PAYE via Trust in SODA

Interview Process: 2 stages

Role Summary

• We are looking for a data analyst that is excited about working in an incredible AAA games studio, to improve decision making and change the experience of millions of players around the world.
• The successful candidate will collaborate closely with game designers and producers to understand business challenges, then craft research initiatives and analysing complex datasets aimed at uncovering valuable insights about our player base. Your primary focus will involve leveraging game and platform telemetry to conduct comprehensive quantitative analysis.
• We are in search of an individual who will learn about our clients’ games, its vibrant player community, and the diverse business needs of our stakeholders. In this role, you will be an integral part of our cross-disciplinary insights team. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact and collaborate with producers, designers, engineers, and leadership at a leading AAA live service studio.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with game designers & producers to understand current and new game features to identify opportunities for research and design. Research will cover game telemetry design, analytics and presenting findings back to the business.
• Write complex set of SQL/Python to extract and analyse big, complex, multi-dimensional datasets within Databricks.
• Own instrumentation of game telemetry during development phase; work closely with Engineering and QA teams to assure timely implementation and quality of the identified BI hooks,
• Generate actionable reports and recommendations on features that will improve retention, monetisation, and acquisition. Identify pain points for players and work with management, design, and producers to develop strategies to address key problem areas.
• Share both game feature specific and general player insights with executive leadership and game teams regularly. Create cogent reports that are simultaneously data-rich and easily digested.

Key Skills

• Strong experience as a data analyst
• Strong knowledge of digital product analytics, including telemetry, KPIs, and engagement metrics.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and/or Python.?
• Strong analytic skills and facility with Excel
• Experience with presenting data, and creating reports (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau)
• Communication, organisational and collaboration skills
• Experience working with data engineers for data asset deployment & management.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in digital platform analytics (web, digital products), especially live service games.
• Familiarity with game industry/game development
• Proficiency in statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design methodologies.
• Experience with AB testing, Recommenders and Audience Segmentation
• Documentation and data/reporting architecture design.
• Telemetry hook design
• Experience with Databricks or similar platforms.
• Experience with DBT
• Experience with GIT, version control and code review