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Principal, Data Scientist

PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST





Who We Are:


2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for consoles, handheld gaming devices, PCs, smartphones and tablets across today’s most popular gaming genres, most well-known for critically acclaimed franchises like NBA 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.



What We Need:

We’re looking for a skilled and passionate senior manager to lead a team of data scientists aligned towards one of our principal games, in our growing central Data Science department. The team is focused on crunching data, building models, and extracting insights. Model outputs are used in a production environment to power live-ops (in-game monetization) and marketing (in-game, in-console, and direct). Insights are used by leadership to manage the business and improve the product. Our games are played by millions every day, and in-game monetization is part of the Analytics group, so our team has a very rich dataset to play with, and a direct path to implementing our outputs.

What You Will Do:

• Manage a team of local and remote (Dublin, Ire) data scientists (up to 5)
• Build and execute a roadmap for the team, in collaboration with management and game commercial team

Work on your own projects, and supervise team deliverables, which include:

• Analyze player gameplay and economy telemetry data to understand player behavior and suggest actions to improve the player experience
• Build player churn prediction, spend propensity, lifetime value and marketing efficacy models
• Test acquisition, engagement and monetization strategies to improve performance across each
• Work closely with development teams to provide insights into game quality, difficulty, and fun
• Establish and distribute regular performance reports based on simple telemetry and advanced models
• Perform ad hoc analyses for finance, marketing, production and operations
• Present analysis findings in writing and via presentation (including for remote groups)
  

Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit:


The ideal candidate must be able to see the underlying story in the data, build sophisticated or simple models depending on the situation, and develop compelling communication to executives. Being a solution oriented, creative problem solver; a self-starter with the passion and enthusiasm to drive results for meaningful change is critical for this role.

• 2+ years managing people and shipping data science models. Enthusiastic ability to mentor staff
• MS or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Sciences (or in another quantitative discipline)
• 5+ years of experience data mining & analytics, building models with very large, complex and multi-dimensional data sets
• Video games industry experience and/or gaming (especially sports console games) familiarity important
• Experience with predictive modeling techniques and accomplished in use of R or Python machine learning and related modules
• Expert in relational databases, SQL data carpentry. Experience with big data technologies such as Spark or NoSQL DBs, columnar databases like Vertica a plus. We use Snowflake for our DWH
• Experience with data visualization tools, Tableau preferred
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven track record of working across all levels of the organization – having the information is one thing, you must be able to disseminate and educate
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, rapidly prototyping and testing new ideas
• Drive to solve problems, meet deadlines, keep organized, and build what’s necessary along the way
• Experience understanding the strengths and weaknesses of different modeling approaches and can effectively reason about when to apply different combinations and iterate
  
  
  
  
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