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Data Scientist | Candy Crush Soda Saga, A&R

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Job Description:

We are looking for a dedicated and technically proficient Data Scientist interested in building, defining and pushing the boundaries of operational health tracking and A/B test analysis for Candy Crush Soda Saga! You’ll help us to further understand, model, predict, segment, and retain our players and be part of a community of 100+ business intelligence & analytics experts.

Your Role within the Kingdom

In the role as Data Scientist, you will work closely with your teammates and the Head of Tech in Soda. You will also work closely with other Data Scientists and developers across the business to leverage insights from one game across multiple games and build data pipelines and monitoring tools to understand the operational health of the game.

As you are part of a central analytics team, you will also design, monitor, analyse and communicate results for A/B tests, and proactively develop new analyses, experiments and data-driven tools to help the business evolve and seize new opportunities.

• Create, define, maintain and be responsible for the operational health metrics of the game
• Provide a business analytical perspective to discussions and help to drive the priorities within your game
• Support leadership with an analytical perspective in discussions, priority definition and business decisions.
• Be responsible defining and tracking business metrics for internal stakeholders
• Be self-motivated to learn and support the technical development of the team, and help evolve the methodology and tools available to King’s data science community.
• Communicate, visualise and report your findings in a clear and unambiguous way to people with diverse degrees of numerical proficiency.
• Ensure that the data required to understand how our players interact with the game is available and reliable.
• Be able to systematically break complex and abstract problems into solvable questions.

Skills to Create the Thrills

Communicative:

• Business Insight; The ability to identify the problems and issues our games and business wants to solve, and then defining the most appropriate data, analysis or interpretation to lead to the right recommendations and decisions
• Stakeholder Management; The ability to recognize dependencies, form relationships and influence others
• Designing good ways of presenting, visualising or reporting your results/analysis so they are clear and unambiguous
• You should have experience in taking complex data and make it simple and readable for a non-technical audience
• You do not not necessarily have to have gaming experience or background but technical experience from consumer-facing product is required

Technical:

• SQL: The ability to write efficient SQL queries to extract relevant data from our databases with 300+ million players
• Capacity to understand and vet data from multiple different sources (e.g. ready-made data tables, tracking data, jira tickets, external data etc)
• Analytical coding: Using tools such as R or Python for analytical purposes
• Prior experience (at least knowledge of) technical KPIs
• Stats: Understanding the basics of appropriate statistical or machine learning techniques.
• Familiarity with massive data sets and tools to deal with them (e.g., BigQuery/AWS/Hadoop)
• Standard reporting tools such as Looker/Tableau/etc.
• Data visualisation skillet in excel/powerpoint/think cell

Bonus points

• Experience in behavioural psychology/economics and experimental design, and game theory.
• Experience in predictive analytics, segmentation, and related areas
• Experience in the games industry or customer-facing digital businesses
• Working knowledge of randomised controlled trials (ex: social science research, medical research, biostatistics, policy research etc.) or digital A/B testing and online controlled experiments
• Familiar with collaborative programming (git is a must) and highly skilled in R or Python
• Software engineering skills in Java and other languages (beyond R and Python which we use most frequently)

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.