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Data Analyst (Quality Control)
4 years ago
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent for our Bingo team in Toronto. We’re on the hunt for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
· Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
· 100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
· Life Insurance, RRSP matching, Flexible Spending Accounts & More
· Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
· Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snack-filled kitchen
· Company Events such as movie night, pub night and more…
· You'll be equipped with a high-end laptop, monitor and mobile device
· Convenient location in downtown Toronto’s entertainment and technology district
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are currently looking for a Data Analyst (Quality Control) to join our Bingo Pop team! You will get the opportunity to work with some of gaming’s top talent, while lending your analytical talents to help us create top-tier mobile games. Our ideal candidate would have a passion for data, the technical knowledge to work across the data pipeline, and the ability to take initiative to improve the quality of our data.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Building reports, dashboards and data visualizations to monitor the health and accuracy of our data.
- Monitor the entire data pipeline, proactively identify issues, discrepancies or anomalies.
- Create and improve ETL jobs and dashboard scripts, primarily in SQL and Scala.
- Constantly validate data to ensure that our product team is working with the correct data, from installs to revenue to game specific metrics such as a new reward type.
- Proactively identify discrepancies or anomalies and take ownership in ensuring the problem is fixed.
- Debug issues and resolve them, either yourself or by providing detailed information to the appropriate team member, from QA to product to engineering.
- Create dashboards, automated reports and alerts to allow developers and QA to easily monitor and quickly identify data quality issues.
- Work with product and design to understand new game features and their intent, in order to have the necessary logging to analyze the feature in order to provide actionable insights.
- Constantly play the product and monitor KPIs, team and community feedback in order to give context to the data.
- Monitor performance and failures in the data pipeline, and understand the priority and resolve or escalate accordingly .
- Compare data across multiple sources, such as the app stores and third party analytics providers.
- Assist the data engineers in managing billions of rows of data.
- Organize and prioritize requests from a variety of stakeholders, including ad-hoc and time sensitive issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Math, Stats or equivalent.
- 1+ years of experience working with data on a live product.
- Strong data analysis skills using SQL and Excel.
- Programming experience with R, Python, or Scala.
- Ability to create reports and visualize data to provide actionable insights.
- Previous startup experience is desirable, comfort in an agile environment.
- Strong attention to detail and proven analytical skills.
- A curious mindset to identify issues and follow through.
- The ability to communicate and present information clearly.
- An appetite to learn, grow, and take on increasingly more responsibility.
- A strong desire to answer questions that can drive actionable decisions.
- Knowledge of the mobile gaming industry in order to provide recommendations on game design.
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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