Zynga
Principal Data Analyst - Poker
Austin, TX; Toronto, Canada · Principal · Full-time
No sponsorship$15k-$25kDetected 8 days ago
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About the role
- At Zynga, Principal is the next step above Senior; a great fit for analysts ready to take on broader ownership and scope.
- 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 behavior 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.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably with 6 years in a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Familiarity with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau and version control systems such as Git is advantageous.
- Experience/ Demonstrated interest in improving analytics team's processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
- Strong communication skills - you can explain complex data in simple, actionable terms
- Experience/ Interest in improving analytics team's processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
- Familiarity with poker gameplay and terminology
- Familiarity with social casino economies
- All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.
- 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:
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- Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
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- 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.
Compensation
- The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $118,300 and $142,000 per Year.
Benefits
- Support the economy team in tuning the different features in the game to optimize for long term game and feature health
Company info
- At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play.
- Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note that Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position.
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