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Game Evaluation Analyst (Contract)

WHY JOIN THE BUSINESS SERVICES TEAM?

• You are passionate about helping find unique products in today’s market. We’re always looking for new and exciting projects for today’s market, whether they’re from an internal team or from a 3 rd party development partner.
• You are a data junkie who enjoys the numbers behind the games as much as you like playing them. We feel that decisions for our business need to be informed by data, whenever possible. We use high quality market data combined with game development knowledge and experience to provide our analyses.
• You like analyzing what makes combat mechanics or content flow fun. Combat models, reward mechanisms, social features, and other features developed for today’s audiences are as critical for product success than the business model the title uses.
• You enjoy having the capability to influence company and/or product direction. We provide our analyses to development, publishing, and corporate teams and work together on our products and opportunities to help shape the future of NCSOFT.

This is a 8-month fixed term contract position onsite at our office in Aliso Viejo, CA.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As Game Evaluation Analyst, you will assist with the creation of detailed analyses on game features and content for NCSOFT’s business, operations, publishing, and product teams.

• Extensive playtest and review of products in development, games submitted for evaluation, and competitor games across a variety of platform and genres.
• Prepare product and feature datasets for use in evaluation reports that assess a game’s design, feature set and mechanics, art, economy, audience (and more) for distribution to executive and product team stakeholders.
• Participate in internal product playtests and collect feedback which is distributed to the organization.
• Analyze, compare, and contrast datasets or game feature design from internal products against competitor titles.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• 1+ years’ experience in game development, game journalism, and/or data analytics
• Strong gaming experience across multiple platforms (mobile, handheld, PC, and console) and genres
• Creative thinker with excellent data-driven approach
• Ability to present complex findings or datasets to varied groups in a digestible format
• Experience working with multi-functional and/or multi-project teams
• Post-secondary degree in a relevant field is preferred

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience working with data using SQL
• Experience with specialized visualization tools (Tableau, Qlikview)
• Gameplay experience with NCSOFT games, products, and services
• Monetization systems or business model development experience

When applying, we recommend you provide a list of the games you have been playing recently with commentary on the games you have enjoyed.

This is a 8-month fixed term contract position onsite at our office in Aliso Viejo, CA.