Sr. BIE, Forecasting - Amazon Games

Amazon Games is seeking an exceptionally skilled and enthusiastic Business and Demand Planning (BDP) lead, specializing in strategic modeling/forecasting to join the BizOps team. This individual will own topline revenue forecasts and corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for games published by Amazon. The Sr. BDP lead will work with technical teams, product teams, program teams, finance, and operations. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, and be excited by working in an ever-changing environment.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated their ability to:
- Have a passion for games
- Develop and manage accurate topline revenue time-series forecasts and KPI assumptions leveraging data from multiple sources
- Build automated data solutions in Excel and Tableau using SQL
- Explain analyses at an executive level (in both written and verbal formats).
- Automate reports highlighting key insights and trends
- Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, game product managers, and business stakeholders as a leader of quantitative analysis, where you develop solutions that utilize the highest standards of analytical rigor and data integrity

Key job responsibilities
At Amazon, we care deeply about our community. Come be part of a team that is creating a seamless unified experience for Amazon Games to forecast demand and plan business actions accordingly. Individuals interested in this position will be building data-driven solutions to guide operations.

A successful candidate will have a strong track record of delivery in terms of features, pace, quality, and making the correct tradeoffs among competing ends. This leader will partner with technical and business stakeholders to deliver financial analysis used for existing games, and incoming games.

A day in the life
Amazon Games aspires to be the most player and partner-obsessed company in gaming. We’re the place for builders and innovators to unleash their creativity. We connect players and developers to the games and communities they love. Our initiatives include game development, publishing, marketing, and live operations, integrated business operations to connect players and game developers.

In addition to releasing New World, an MMO set on a supernatural continent in the Age of Exploration, and publishing Lost Ark, from acclaimed studio Smilegate RPG, we are working on new IPs from our studios and teams in the US, Canada, and Europe, along with other projects in varying stages of development.

About the team
At Amazon Games we have an inclusive culture, focus on Work/Life Balance, as well as Career Growth.

We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences).

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Irvine, CA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- 5+ years of Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Previous experience developing and managing revenue forecasts and KPIs for games as a service.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent 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, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.