Gaming Data Analyst

Job title:

Gaming Data Analyst

Company

Trust In Soda

Job description

Gaming Data Analyst – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP
Duration: 18 Months
Location: Remote
Rate: £250 – £265 per day PAYESummary:We are looking for a Games 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 clients’ 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’ leading game, its vibrant player community, and the diverse business needs of our clients’ stakeholders. In this role, you will be an integral part of our clients’ 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.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 behaviour.
• 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 answering research questions around customer engagement.

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.
• Look for opportunities to deploy more experiments within the game, like designing A/B tests that assess the impact and implementing content recommenders.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of digital product analytics, including telemetry, KPIs, and engagement metrics.
• 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 GIT, version control and code review.

Expected salary

£65000 – 68900 per year

Location

Greater London

Job date

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:58:10 GMT

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