Description
We are looking for a Game Data Analyst who 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 analyze complex datasets aimed at uncovering valuable insights about our player base. Your primary focus will involve leveraging game and platform telemetry to turn data analysis into insights about our games and our players. This role involves learning about Sea of Thieves, its vibrant player community, and the diverse business needs of our stakeholders. You will be an integral part of our cross-disciplinary insights team, making a significant impact and collaborating with producers, designers, engineers, and leadership at a leading AAA live service studio.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with game designers and producers to understand current and new game features to identify opportunities for research and design.
- Conduct research covering game telemetry design, analytics and present findings back to the business.
- Write complex SQL/Python scripts to extract and analyze big, complex, multi-dimensional datasets within Databricks.
- Own instrumentation of game telemetry during the 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, monetization, and acquisition.
- Identify pain points for players and work with management, design, and producers to develop strategies to address key problems.
- 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.
- Look for opportunities to deploy more experiments within the game such as designing A/B tests that assess impact  and implementing content recommenders.
Essential Skills
- Strong experience as a data analyst.
- Gaming experience .
- Experience with planning  and instrumenting game/platform telemetry.
- Experience working with data engineers to create datasets based on customer behavior.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL Â and/or Python.
- Strong analytic skills  and facility with Excel.
-Experience presenting data , creating reports (eg PowerBI , Tableau).
-Excellent communication , organizational , collaboration skills .
-Experience answering research questions around customer engagement .
Additional Skills & Qualifications
-Knowledge digital product analytics including telemetry , KPIs , engagement metrics .
-Familiarity gaming industry/game development .
-Proficiency statistical analysis hypothesis testing experimental design methodologies .
-Experience A/B testing audience segmentation .
-Documentation data/reporting architecture design .
-Telemetry hook design .
-Experience Databricks similar platforms .
-Experience GIT version control code review .
Location
Bracknell , UK
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