Client:
King
Location:
Barcelona, Spain
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
831041108092492185632460
Job Description:
Craft: Data, Analytics & Strategy
We are looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist to join our team in Farm Heroes Saga. As a Data Scientist, your primary focus will be on driving data-informed decision-making and optimizing product performance. You will play a pivotal role in leveraging data insights to influence strategic decisions and enhance the overall success of our game. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and designers to leverage data and advanced analytics techniques to extract insights, identify trends, and make recommendations that enhance the player experience and drive business growth. Your expertise in statistical modeling will enable you to uncover actionable insights from complex data sets and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of the game.
Your role within our Kingdom:
As a Data Scientist in the Farm Heroes Saga team, you will be embedded in a cross-functional team of product managers, game designers, and developers where you will be responsible for the analytical side of the game.
Specifically, you will:
* Proactively develop new analyses, experiments, and data-driven tools to harness business opportunities.
* Translate business needs to technical and AB test requirements, then work with development teams to ensure correct implementation and event tracking.
* Work closely with game designers and product team to scope and design tests to identify potential opportunities (e.g., player behavior, game economy).
* Carefully check and problem solve issues to ensure the correct operations of the game, even when confronted by subtle data complications.
* Provide a business analytical perspective to discussions and help to drive the priorities within your game.
Skills to create thrills:
To be successful in this role, you will have a passion for quantitative analysis, understanding player behavior, and the ability to draw business insights which will add real value to King. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to learn quickly and enjoy working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. This role will involve working with teams and individuals across King - such as Game Developers, Producers, and Game Artists, so broad communication skills are essential.
You need to be proficient in the following key skills:
* Product insight: You are capable of using data to gain a deep understanding of game mechanics and impacts on player behavior to solve business problems such as feature implementation and optimizations, player economy optimization, main KPI shift, tracking bugs, marketing impact.
* Data Storytelling: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Technical skills: You can extract, manipulate, and visualize data using different tools and you have an understanding of applied statistics (probability, causality, and time series). We make intensive usage of SQL, and the Python/R analytical stack, so having prior experience in these domains is required.
About King:
King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
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