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Senior Data Scientist – Game Production | Shared Tech

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Senior Data Scientist – Game Production | Shared Tech

Your role within our Kingdom

We are looking for a dedicated and proactive Senior 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!

You will work with establishing A/B testing for technology releases and building observability into our tooling offering. This role will work closely with varied team members in a fun, dynamic and fast- paced environment. You’ll possess the role of a domain specialist in product Data Science for our area, and be part of the community of 100+ business intelligence & analytics experts at King.

The department

This role belongs to part of our Kingdom we call Shared Tech. The teams within Shared Tech act as internal B2B organisations across all the technology that we use to power our live games including data, machine learning, infrastructure, everything related to cloud, payments, game engines themselves and many more. 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 350 million active live users each month. Shared Tech is the stage where King games love to perform!

The team

You will be in our team called Game Production, bringing flow to other developers within King. We are a team of 100+ skilled, knowledgeable, and passionate people. We are the shepherds of Kings Game Engine and Unified SDK, used across more than 14 different King games including Candy Crush Saga with over a quarter of a billion mobile game players every month. We are cross- located in Stockholm, London, Barcelona and Berlin with a flexible hybrid working model.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Design, monitor, analyse and communicate results for AB Tests.
• Be responsible defining and tracking business metrics for both player and internal developer experiences
• Translate business needs to technical experiment requirements, then work with development and business teams to ensure correct implementation, tracking and measurement.
• Become a point of contact for data interpretation and analytics within the department.
• Proactively develop new analyses that identify improvement areas with specific actions to test.
• Support leadership with an analytical perspective in discussions, priority definition and business decisions.
• Champion data literacy within Game Production and share your knowledge with the rest of the Data Craft and wider Data Science community.

Skills to Create Thrills

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

• Technical skills: You can extract, manipulate and visualize data and you have advanced understanding of applied statistics (probability, causality and time series). You make intensive usage of SQL, cloud services and the Python/R analytical stack.
• Business Insight: You have the ability to understand the problems and issues our teams want to solve. You know how to define the right data, important metrics, analyses or interpretations leading to the right recommendations.
• Communication: You’re comfortable designing good ways of communicating, visualising or reporting your results/analyses so they are clear and unambiguous to technical and non- technical team members.
• Due to the stand- alone nature of this role being a self- starter with an entrepreneurial spirit is a big bonus.

Other experience that might be helpful, includes:

• Knowledge of Looker
• Experience with Support methodologies and tools, such as Zendesk.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience in the games industry, customer service or similarly customer- facing digital businesses.
• Experience in Predictive Analytics, Segmentation, and Randomized Controlled Trials.

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

• Barcelona
• Berlin
• London
• Stockholm

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20- year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level- up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.