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Senior Data Scientist

We have an opening on the analytics team at Seriously Helsinki office for a Senior Data Scientist. Your work will focus on analysing Best Fiends player data. You'll enable data-driven decision making and automation in game development and gameplay, which helps make the game even more fun to play.

We are looking for a person who is curious minded and passionate about data analytics, and who is capable of explaining the sometimes complex results to a business decision maker. We expect you to be a motivated self-starter who is ready to hit the ground running in an energetic start-up environment, where everybody pulls their weight, where every idea is valued, and where, if we get it right, we might just conquer the globe. Come join us!

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product leads and the management team by analysing the game’s data to identify key areas for growth and improvement
• Research complex questions, use statistical methods, and share analysis results with the team and company through reports, interactive documents, dashboards, and presentations
• Innovate and help planning A/B tests, analyze results, and suggest next steps
• Deploy data-driven applications and machine learning models into production to automate decision making
• Share best practises and reusable software components with the analytics team, guide less experienced team members, have a point of view and take the lead

Requirements:

• Experience in querying large, complex data sets using SQL
• Well-versed in data visualisation and exploratory data analysis using BI tools
• Familiarity with software development practises, version control, and DevOps platforms such as GitLab
• Coding experience in R and the Shiny web application package
• Coding experience in Python, preferably also in SciPy ecosystem and the PySpark API
• Work experience from putting machine learning models into production

Bonus:

• PhD in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or some field of computational engineering
• Work experience in the mobile/social/free-to-play gaming space

We kindly ask You to send your CV to us as soon as possible as the position will be filled once a suitable candidate has been found.

About Seriously Digital Entertainment

We are building mobile games that become entertainment properties. We are passionate about great storytelling, unique characters, desperate conflict and unlikely heroes. We are inspired to build brands that can give back to the world.

We are in this because we are driven to make great games. We want to make games that keep you playing, in the blue glow of your phone until the small hours. Games that stay in the back of your head through the day and games that you want to fire up quickly for just one more round during your lunch break.