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Business Performance Analyst
3 years ago
King Strategic Partnerships supports key company priorities by driving partner collaboration that fuels organic growth across our leading portfolio of games. We are looking for someone who is interested in making data- driven recommendations that identify "win- win" value propositions leveraging our partner ecosystem. You’ll have a proven ability to apply your skills in order to generate value for Candy Crush, one of the leading casual games franchises as well as our studio's next generation of awesome mobile games.
We're looking for a team player, who gets excited about answering difficult business problems, and isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get deep into the data. This is the perfect role for someone who wants to continue to grow their data analysis skills as well as the strategic thinking & communication skills required to drive meaningful impact through data.
You will be part of a community of 80+ business intelligence, analytics, and data science experts, and work closely with various teams across the company to develop your own skills and capabilities.
You will be strong in quantitative analysis, statistics or mathematics, and have the ability to draw business insights that will add real value to King. You will need to demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating effectively with teams throughout the company.
Your role within our Kingdom
- Provide accurate and actionable data insights and analysis to support decision makers
- Manage strong relationships with cross- functional teams within the company and across platform partners (e.g., Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.)
- Design and build dashboards to track how our games leverage platform features and to highlight trends and potential issues
- Provide internal teams and platform partners with regular and ad hoc updates on business performance
- Communicate and visualize results and recommendations in a clear and concise way to leadership and cross- functional stakeholders
- Leverage King’s massive dataset to measure the impact of platform features
- Support business cases for joint strategic initiatives with relevant product data
Skills to create thrills
You are a passionate problem solver and have the ability to draw data driven business insights that will add real value to King. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating effectively with teams both external and across King - such as Game Studios, Data, and Marketing.
- BA/BS degree in a quantitative discipline with strong academic record;
- 1- 3 years of related experience in a business analytics or data science role
- Experience with SQL, data analysis and dashboarding tools;
- The ability to understand complex business problems and then define the right metrics or analysis to lead to the right recommendations and decisions
- Experience presenting your results/recommendations so they are clear and unambiguous
- Strong analytical skills and an understanding of the appropriate statistical techniques to use in different circumstances
- Ability to work well in a cross- functional and cross- cultural team environment;
- Strong relationship and influencing skills
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex and analytical concepts to non- technical stakeholders
We’re Seriously Playful
Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.
A great saga needs all sorts of heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. And that’s it.
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