ABOUT MEGAZEBRA
At MegaZebra we have successfully crafted category-leading games for more than 10 years. We develop our own original titles, and develop games based on “Hollywood”-IP such as Desperate Housewives - The Game. By combining technology, game-design, art, analytics, and bringing together passionate people from around the globe we have repeatedly been able to produce hit games. We are based in Munich/Germany and Montréal/Canada.
We develop all our games in small and vibrant teams. Each team has a high degree of responsibility and creative freedom for their game and is committed to creating something outstanding. For our studio in the heart of Montréal’s gaming scene, we are now looking for an experienced Data Scientist - Marketing.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading our Business Intelligence and Analytics efforts , and working with our marketing team to create data-driven strategies for all games
- W o rking with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large data sets through scripting in SQL. Use this data to gain insight into the user journey, user behavior, or understand root causes of user performance
- Usage of big data analytics to monitor the performance across our game portfolio, leverage analytics to tune mechanics, modify existing features, and identify new ones to increase user conversion, retention, and monetization
- Providing data-driven insights, recommendations and optimizations based on SQL databases
- Responsibility for identifying opportunities for maximizing revenue of our games based on insights gathered from data analysis
- Responsibility for monitoring and identifying actionable plans for improving marketing campaign KPIs, incl. player actions, installs and reactivation
- Driving the innovative use of data to optimize overall game revenues and ROI
- Main driver of using new and innovative methodology, tools, and technology to analyze and display data, as well as looking to automate marketing functions.
YOUR PROFILE
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree (advanced degree preferred) in a quantitative discipline such as economics, statistics, mathematics, operations research mathematics, computer science, or engineering
- 3+ years experience in the games industry resulting in general understanding of video-games, turning insights from data into actionable improvement plans for games, and collaboration with game-designers
- Comprehensive understanding of statistical and data mining concepts and techniques as well as experience with data management
- Pragmatic and insight-driven approach to quantitative analytics/statistics and ability to determine what data-sets validate or invalidate your hypotheses
- Experience with analytics platforms and technologies such as Google and Facebook Analytics
- Experience working with database technologies, SQL, and basic scripting capabilities
- Ability to communicate complex concepts to all stakeholders
- Ability to pick up and adapt to new concepts and technologies
- Inquisitive and analytical mindset
YOUR BENEFITS
- Become part of the company which develops category-leading, casual games on mobile and social platforms
- Work in a highly creative environment with a super-flat hierarchy
- Join our office in Montréal. Work with a very experienced and talented group of game-designers and developers at our centrally located office. Experience start-up spirit and the ability to have significant impact
- At the same time, you will be able to plug into our capabilities as a fully-fledged video-game development studio. MegaZebra has a ten-year track-record developing and publishing our own games. So, you get the best of both worlds
If you’re a game changer and would like to join MegaZebra, please apply in English with your current CV and a cover letter.