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Data Analyst, Corporate Strategy

Data Analyst, EA Game Strategy Team

The EA Game Strategy team is part of Corporate and Business Strategy working closely with EA’s studio
leadership and game teams in shaping strategies that drive growth, innovation, and transformation across
our largest game franchises and titles.
EA is looking for a data analyst with strong data management, visualization and analysis skills to help
maintain and grow EA’s market intelligence capability and support the Game Strategy team with data
insights.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

● Support the EA Games Strategy team with data, insights, and recommendations
○ Collaborate with EA stakeholders to conduct complex ad-hoc and recurring analysis to
drive and support decision-making
○ Support Game Strategy team members by querying and sharing market data and trends
○ Participate in team workshops, stakeholder meetings and regular 1:1s to provide data
points of view to support on-going strategy discussions

● Build business-critical market forecasts and reports
○ Visualize market data for EA’s senior leadership and other internal audiences to drive
decision-making in game development and commercialization
○ Create genre-specific datasets covering multiple devices, countries, and competitors that
can be circulated with internal audiences
○ Collaborate across functions to build EA’s 3-5 year market forecasts, taking ownership
over quality and accuracy
○ Conduct variance analysis on historical forecasts versus actuals

● Create, improve, and maintain EA’s market intelligence data pipeline
○ QA business critical market intelligence data to uncover and fix errors in the data itself, as
well as underlying ETL processes
○ Establish a process of continuous improvement for existing data pipelines to increase
accuracy, efficiency, and confidence
○ Identify and validate the accuracy of new external data sources to improve EA’s market
intelligence capabilities
○ Collaborate with EA’s data science and technology teams to build new data pipelines and
integrate new data sources with existing ones

SKILLS:
● 2-3+ years of experience with business/market/competitive intelligence reporting and analysis
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technical field such as engineering, data science, computer
science, or information systems
● Expert knowledge of SQL, including ability to write complex queries to pull and transform data
● Experience working with Excel and VBA (or willingness to learn)
● Knowledge of at least one scripting language such as Python or R
● Familiarity with BI reporting tools such as Tableau or Looker
● Understanding of various forecasting methodologies, along with their strengths and limitations,
and how to measure accuracy
● Experience working for stakeholders with non-technical backgrounds
● Active interest in video games and the industry is a big plus