Outside IR35 contract jobs

Description

Company Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Game Data Analyst to join a well-known, UK studio who are widely respected throughout the games industry. Their highly successful, AAA flagship title has enjoyed sustained success and a growing player base with legions of adoring fans around the world.

Role Overview
As a Game Data Analyst you will play a direct role in shaping the decision making to improve upon the game experiences of millions of players around the world. You will be an integral part of a cross-disciplinary insights team and collaborate closely with Game Designers and Producers to understand business challenges, then craft research initiatives and analyse complex datasets to uncover valuable insights about the player base. Your primary focus will involve leveraging game and platform telemetry to turn data analysis into insights about both the game and its players.

Contract Details
Please note this is an 18-month contract position, to be worked remotely from within the UK. As such, anyone applying should currently reside in the UK and hold a full right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities
- Work closely with game designers & producers to understand current and new game features to identify opportunities for research and design.
- Research game telemetry design, analytics and present your findings.
- 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 team, Design, Production to develop strategies to address key problem areas.
- Share both game feature specific & general player insights with executive leadership & game teams regularly.
- Create cogent reports that are simultaneously data-rich & easily digested.
- Look for opportunities to deploy more experiments within the game like designing A/B tests that assess impact & implementing content recommenders.

Skills & Experience Required
- 2 or more years’ experience as a Data Analyst in the games industry.
- A passion for playing games yourself.
- Experience with planning & instrumenting game/platform telemetry.
- Experience working with data engineers to create datasets based on customer behaviour.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL or Python.
- Strong analytic skills & Excel skills
- Experience presenting data & creating reports (e.g., PowerBI or Tableau).
- Communication, organisational & collaboration skills.
- Experience answering research questions around customer engagement.

Bonus Points If You Have...
- Knowledge of digital product analytics including telemetry KPIs & engagement metrics.
- Proficiency in statistical analysis hypothesis testing & experimental design methodologies.