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Data Analyst
3 years ago
Amplitude is a team of experienced, quality driven video game lovers and creators of the finest strategy games with the help of our players! Founded in 2011 and acquired by SEGA in 2016, we are a team of over 120 developers based in Paris with an international team hailing from all over the world.
Our current titles in production include HUMANKIND™, a historical strategy epic where you’ll be combining cultures as you lead your people from the Bronze to the Modern age; and Endless™ Dungeon, a squad-based rogue-lite tactical action game.
We’re best known for our critically acclaimed Endless™ series, played by millions worldwide, including Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, and Endless Space 2.
Our close relationship with the community is a core feature of the studio’s philosophy. We’re proud of the way we create games together with our players via Games2Gether, our custom-built community platform that enables our community to play a key role in the creation of our games at every stage of development.
Job Description
As our Data Analyst, your main responsibilities will be to work with our data engineer, as well as production (primarily), marketing and finance teams to determine our data tracking needs, verify the data’s quality and provide understandable and actionable data visualization to the users of that data. You try to understand our players’ behavior in-game and outside, to help us improve our games, answer our existing players’ expectations and convince new players.
More specifically, as the studio’s Data Analyst, you will:
- Work with the production and marketing teams to design our in-game tracking and maximize the data’s usefulness,
- Provide our production, marketing and finance teams with well-designed reports that answer the teams’ questions on our games and our players,
- Perform comprehensive and actionable analyses, at your initiative, to provide new insight into our games, our players, and our business,
- Together with our data engineer, work to automate data verification and visualization processes, to make sure tracking is fully optimized and the production and management teams can be informed, accurately and in real time, of changes in in-game behavior,
- Lead the evangelization effort of data in the service of the decision-making process, by being user-centered,
- Be constantly on the lookout for better tools to help data users access and understand data better.
Required experience & skills
- At least 3 years of experience as a data analyst or in a similar position.
- Bachelor's degree in a business, technical or quantitative discipline (Commerce, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering)
- Strong SQL proficiency and good programming skills (Python preferred)
- Strong proficiency with common commercial visualization tools (PowerBI or Tableau preferred)
- Strong analytical skills with an ability to ask questions, find the answer inside massive data sets and draw actionable recommendations from them
- Strong synthetic skills, with an ability to understand the audience and to design and present complex analyses and data in an intuitive way
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to become a champion of data in a diverse group of backgrounds
- You are autonomous, have a can-do attitude and love taking initiatives
- You are flexible and adaptable to fast-paced game development
- Strong passion for gaming
- Fully fluent in French and English, both spoken and written
(Very) Welcome bonuses !
- Master’s Degree in a business, technical or quantitative discipline (Commerce, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering)
- Experience building custom-made visualization apps
- Experience with data science techniques
- Knowledge of the video games industry as a business
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
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