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Product Scientist

1 year ago

About Lion Studios

Lion Studios is a mobile games publisher that works with mobile developers to get their games discovered by players around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lion Studios’ creative and strategy teams utilize their expertise to help game developers break through the noise and grow their businesses. Since launching in 2018, Lion Studios has driven 90% of its games to the Top 10 in the App Store and Google Play and helped drive 16 games to #1 in the US App Store’s Top Free chart. Many of the studio’s games hit the top 10 and the top 20 across both the App Store and Google Play. Collectively, the studio has driven hundreds of millions of downloads. Check out some of our hit releases: Mr. Bullet, Happy Glass, Save the Girl, and Slap Kings.

Introduction:

We are looking for a Product Scientist to join our WORDLE! team. In this role, you will work closely with our General Manager to:

Translate business requirements into technical implementations via instrumentation in games to collect necessary data
Collaborate with the team to proactively drive feature roadmaps with data
Collaborate with the team to implement personalization and optimization algorithms that make real-time changes to player experience.
Take ownership over all aspects of analysis for Wordle!, set up new Looker dashboards, help instrument new features, and proactively look for opportunities via data to suggest new feature development or tuning.

Responsibilities:

Setup and manage existing game feature launches with adherence to deadlines (.e.g., event tracking, soft launch intelligence, etc.)
Work with the product team to define the experimentation roadmap
Design, run and evaluate experiments to answer questions about the motivations driving player behavior and how that varies for different segments
Perform exploratory and performance analyses to identify and recommend opportunities for enriching player experiences, driving monetization and creating compelling and entertaining Live Ops events
Perform diagnostic analyses to uncover sources of problematic data and/or unexpected player behavior
Build analytical models for segmenting and describing user behavior to drive decisions and collaborate with Data Scientists to identify opportunities for personalizing and optimizing the player experience
Develop Looker Explores, Dashboards and Looks to empower stakeholders to answer questions autonomously

Required Qualifications:

2 - 4 years of professional experience. Specific experience with social games, mobile apps, and/or cognitive sciences is strongly preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field. Honors thesis or Master’s degree with thesis is strongly preferred.
Experience designing, running and evaluating quantitative experiments
Proficient with R and/or Python for data modeling and analysis
Proficient with SQL
Ability to be-self sufficient and execute quickly when given autonomy
Flexible team player who will thrive in a dynamic, constantly evolving environment
Excellent English and communication skills

Bonus Points:

Experience with Snowflake
Experience with Databricks
Experience with Looker development
Knowledge of mobile gaming metrics and the mobile gaming industry
Product focused mindset
A passion for games (of any type)

AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is $92,000 - $141,000. Base compensation at AppLovin is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and other benefits.

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