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Data Analyst
3 years ago
PerBlue is looking for an aspiring Data Analyst to join our team. We’re a quickly growing independent studio whose free-to-play midcore mobile games have been played by millions people around the world, including Disney Heroes: Battle Mode . Our cross-functional and collaborative team has experience across the videogame industry. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, we are also based remotely around the United States for an unmatched quality of life and work.
We’re looking for a thoughtful data wizard who can help us dig through mountains of video game data, analyze it, find actionable insights, and present them to everyone else on the team. We appreciate someone who can challenge us to think creatively in new ways about how to understand our data, while still having a commitment to delivering results.
This position is open for full-time remote work within the United States or for relocation to work in Madison.
Responsibilities
As a key addition to our BI team, you’ll be involved in the full lifecycle of our data infrastructure - everything from helping designing database schemas and writing SQL queries, to creating and presenting succinct and informative dashboards and visualizations. This highly cross-functional team member communicates and collaborates regularly with marketing, live-ops, development, product, and management teams.
Our ideal candidate is a quick learner who is detail-oriented, responsive, and truly loves making sense of large amounts of data. You should enjoy working with data and technology in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, to support collaborative team goals. You should fully support PerBlue’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in our workplace and communities of game players.
Requirements and Qualifications
- 1+ years experience writing analytic SQL queries (emphasis on SELECTs using JOINs, GROUP BY, window functions, etc., not so much INSERTs/UPDATEs)
- Ability to effectively communicate findings and recommendations, and connect with a variety of stakeholders
- Highly motivated to deliver accurate results.
- Able to proactively take ownership of tasks, delivering meaningful, accurate results that add value.
- Lifelong learner who is always excited to learn and try new things.
Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
- 1+ years experience in data-related role
- Mobile and/or free-to-play game industry experience
- Postgres and/or Snowflake/Redshift cloud database querying
- Tableau or other data exploration, visualization and interactive dashboarding software
- Machine learning / artificial intelligence
- Data modeling
- Basic statistics (AB testing, confidence intervals, etc)
- Programming, specifically Python
- Version control systems, especially Git
Key Duties Will Include
- Support and nurture a culture of honesty, trust, and collaboration via data.
- Develop a strong understanding of our games, game design principles, core metrics and underlying assumptions; then work collaboratively to effectively question, test, and verify their truthfulness.
- Break down questions and requests for data into smaller, actionable plans to guarantee stakeholders will get their real questions answered.
- Improve existing Tableau dashboards and create new ones with a keen eye toward end user experience (ease of understanding, clarity, dashboard responsiveness, consistency, etc)
- Write SQL for data exploration, quick question-answer, and for more in-depth understanding via Tableau Data Sources, statistical analysis, etc.
- Do more thorough analyses when needed, including coming up with your own hypotheses, testing, revising, and ultimately providing data-driven, evidenced recommendations.
- Provide summaries of actionable takeaways that are understandable to non-technical colleagues while also providing empirical evidence and thought process for stakeholders wanting deeper understanding.
- Actively participate in PerBlue’s efforts to be a welcoming, inclusive and diverse workplace.
Compensation and Benefits
We offer 6+ weeks of paid vacation and health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a well-matched 401k. We also support our remote team with a catered lunch plan, snack box delivery, and a variety of other perks. You'll be part of an energetic and collaborative environment with flexible hours. We are headquartered in the vibrant neighborhood around beautiful downtown Madison .
We’ve been named a “Top Developer” by Google and given several “Best Place to Work” awards by a variety of publications.
No agencies, please. We regret that we cannot consider visa sponsorship or candidates based outside of the United States for this position at this time.
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