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Senior Analyst - FIFA
3 years ago
What EA Sports does:
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world’s #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.
Innovation, passion, and team-work is at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne; we are looking for the brightest talent so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.
As a Senior Analyst working within the FIFA Analytics team, your main focus will be on FIFA's Ultimate Team mode and its in-game economy, working with the live content group along with a diverse set of colleagues in analytics around the world. We're looking for a thoughtful, curious person with a passion for diving into data to uncover insights and understand how our players are engaging with Ultimate Team. Your analysis will help ensure that its economy remains well-balanced as new content is continually introduced into the in-game market, so that players of all types can find success and enjoyment in the mode. You’ll not only be a data explorer and modeler, but also a storyteller and influencer, driving insights that spur bold decisions for FUT's development team.
Examples of projects you may work on include: establishing the key set of metrics that the team will use to assess the ongoing health of the in-game economy; performing analysis to determine what's driving those metrics into healthy vs. unhealthy states; creating models to predict the value of new content being introduced into the in-game market, and the impact that its introduction will have on Ultimate Team and its players.
Responsibilities:
- Model trends in our data to predict the ways in which new content and campaigns will affect the in-game economy, its performance, and our players.
- Develop strategic insights to help our partners make informed decisions about Ultimate Team campaign and content planning, execution and monitoring.
- Receive questions from our partners, determine the best ways that our data can help answer them, and provide those insights through dashboards, reports, or presentations.
- Explore player behavior patterns in our data to identify opportunities to improve the player experience.
- Present analyses and findings to our partners in a clear, understandable, and actionable way.
- Become an expert in live content strategies and campaigns.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field at a minimum; a master’s degree in one of these fields is a significant plus
- 5+ years of experience in an analytics role using data to help guide decisions, preferably in a consumer products-oriented industry (e.g. gaming, e-commerce); experience with practical applications of economic analysis is a significant plus
- Excellent SQL querying skills
- Proficiency analyzing large datasets in both a spreadsheet program (e.g. Excel, Sheets) and in a programmatic analysis tool (e.g. Python, R)
- Experience in practical applications of statistical modeling (e.g. multivariate regression, predictive modeling, clustering, machine learning)
- Familiarity with use of data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, R Shiny)
- Passion for games or sports
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