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Principal Product Data Scientist - Client Foundation | Shared Tech

King
London
1 year ago
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Principal Product Data Scientist - Client Foundation

We are open for this role to be based in one of our sweet locations in either:

Department

This role belongs to part of the Kingdom we call Shared Tech. The teams within Shared Tech work as B2B organisations working across all the technology that we use to power our live games, including data infrastructure, machine learning, payments infrastructure and the game engines themselves. The vision within Shared Tech is to provide a competitive technological advantage for our game teams to help them deliver an amazing player experience to our 250 million active live users a month.

Role

We are looking for a Principal Product Data Scientist, interested in pushing the boundaries of dev ops analytics to make sure speedy technology updates can be done safely in all of our games.

Be a part of Client Foundations, bringing flow to other developers within King. We are a team of 20+ skilled, knowledgeable, and passionate people. We are the shepherds of Kings Unified SDK, used across more than 14 different King games including Candy Crush Saga with nearly a quarter of a billion mobile game players every month. We are cross- located in Stockholm, London, and Barcelona with a flexible hybrid working model.

You will work with establishing A/B testing for technology releases and building observability into our tooling offering. You will both act as a senior mentor as well as an individual contributor. You will be working closely with varied team members in a fun, dynamic and fast- paced environment. You’ll possess the role of a domain expert in product data science for our area, and be part of the community of 80+ business intelligence & analytics experts at King.

Specifically you will:

Skills to Create Thrills

Our ideal candidate will have solid experience nurturing an analytical team in a technical environment. There is plenty of scope at King for you to learn from your colleagues in the areas where you have less experience, and to share your own skills where you are stronger.

Specific factors that are helpful to excel in this role include:

Minimum requirements:

About King

King is the game developer behind the world- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Applications need to be in English.
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