Zynga
Senior Data Analyst - Poker
Austin, TX; Toronto, Canada · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$15k-$25kDetected 22 hours ago
PythonGitMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsStatisticsA/B TestingProduct StrategyOnboardingControlsEpicLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- As part of our analytics team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our game through data-driven insights.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Product team to enhance revenue, retention, and engagement metrics. This includes conducting A/B testing, performing insights analysis, and developing dashboards.
- Analyze player behaviour to understand motivations and preferences, partnering with game design and consumer insights teams to translate findings into actionable experience improvements.
- Design and maintain ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources, ensuring source of truth for analyses and business intelligence.
- Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data to improve the game experience.
- Design and maintain a suite of highly visible dashboards used by game leadership and game designers to make strategic decisions for Zynga Poker
- Play a leading role in the design and continuous improvement of our fraud and bad actor models
- Actively play and engage with our games to maintain first-hand understanding of player experience, game mechanics, and potential pain points.
- Monitor and maintain the integrity of a wide range of tools and models used to streamline workflows and personalize the player experience, in collaboration with other data analysts and scientists on the team.
- Analyze long and short-term trends to deliver insights that influence product direction
- Design statistically sound experiments that drive measurable impact
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably in a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience/ Demonstrated interest in improving analytics team's processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
- Familiarity with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau and version control systems such as Git is advantageous.
- Strong communication skills - you can explain complex data in simple, actionable terms
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. Advanced degrees (Masters or PhD) are a plus.
- Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and analyses and dealing with ambiguous data
- Demonstrated experience in data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
- Strong ability in both written and oral communication.
- Highly self-motivated with a keen interest in problem-solving.
- Willingness to take ownership of challenges.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Bonus Points:
Nice to have
- Familiarity with poker gameplay and terminology
- Familiarity with social casino economies
- Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™-plus many more!
- Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation-and where you can take your career to the next level.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Advanced degrees (Masters or PhD) are a plus.
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience in automating recurring analytics workflows is a plus
Compensation
- The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $96,400 and $135,000 per Year.
Benefits
- Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams.
- To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site
- Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the
- Support the economy team in tuning the different features in the game to optimize for long term game and feature health
Company info
- We are proud to be an
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.
Visa & Work Authorization
- r, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran stat
This listing is sourced directly from Zynga's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.