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Data Scientist, E-commerce

Job Description

If you are looking to use your knowledge of data science to create insights in a renowned video game company, this is the job you have been looking for. In a newly established team, based in San Francisco and Montreal, you will get to influence how we work with data science as you generate insights that are actively put to use. This position is embedded in the e-commerce team (Montreal office).

What you'll do

• Full stack scientist

As a scientist, you will get access to a large panel of tools corresponding to different steps of the analysis. The most commons are SQL/HiveQL for data extraction, Python/Spark for data analysis and Tableau for data visualization.

• Member of a versatile team

The team is fully transverse as we are working with production, marketing, CRM, media, licensing, sales and finance. We are here to help when the questions start to be complex.

• International contribution

You will be part of a team based in Montreal and San Francisco but you will also work with other analytical teams based all around the world, especially Montreal and Paris.

• Focus – E-Commerce

Your mission will focus on the Ubisoft Store where we are selling our games and many merchandises related to, such as collectibles, clothes, books…

• Connecting the dots of the consumer journey

To provide the best insights and recommendations you will have to connect the data from the store with all the tracking we have: game, email, web, media and sales. By helping defining the consumer journey, you will increase the revenue and the ROI of the Ubisoft store.

• Attribution and lifetime value

To optimize the ROI of the store, you will build an attribution model and a lifetime value model customized for the shop taking into account merchandises beyond games: collectibles, clothes, books…

• Data science platform

Our Hadoop ecosystem is fresh from the press. Your input has a key user will be to influence its quality by discussing with the other data scientists (Montreal and San Francisco) and the data architects (Montreal).

Daily activities in the Data Science team

To give you an idea of the past and current projects, please find below a non-exhaustive sample of our daily activities.

• Contribution to the customer engagement

The CRM data are composed of millions of players, who they are, what they played split in two databases on Hadoop, the other on Teradata. We have built different models which permit to cluster players for emailing campaign or to select players for betas.

• Contribution to the brand and production vision

The brand and production teams are always eager to know better their players. To do so, we are using the game tracking data, hundreds of billions of events per game, to know their game behaviors and hence help to shape the brand and production vision.

• Contribution to the executive management topics

The analytics have a close relationship with the executive management and we are often asked to quickly present an analysis about a hot topic.

Qualifications

• Master or upper in computer science or mathematics
• 2+ years of experience as a data scientist
• Strong interest in e-commerce and marketing
• Strong interest in the gaming industry
• Proficiency in Python and Spark (better) or R (at least)
• Proficiency in SQL (or HiveQL nice to have)
• Proficiency to work with Machine Learning Library (nice to have)
• Knowledge of data visualization (nice to have)
• Experience with advanced analytics
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Speak and write French and English fluently
• Ability to reconcile technical and business perspectives
• Ability to develop and maintain good interdepartmental relations and communicate with colleagues at all hierarchical levels

What to send our way

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills

Additional Information

At Ubisoft Montreal, a preeminent developer of video games located in Montreal’s dynamic Mile-End neighbourhood since 1997, we offer a work environment unique in the industry for allowing you to build and cultivate games that are part of critically acclaimed, iconic AAA franchises of international repute.

When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary developers connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.

More than anything, at Ubi Montreal, you will regularly ship a variety of big, quality titles – Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Watch_Dogs, For Honor and… well we can’t disclose all our secrets just yet… – and work with some of the most talented people in the industry.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.