Analytics Manager

We are looking for an Analytics Manager to our gaming client.

Start: ASAP

Length: 18 months

Location: The role requires a minimum of three days per week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday) in Stockholm

The Player and Data Insights Team is looking for an Analytics Manager with a drive to achieve high impact, high quality results. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a a game analytics team and driving insights that result in improvements to player experiences across several of the studio titles. You will manage a small team of analysts in Stockholm, Sweden, and coordinate communication and collaboration with product, business, engineering, and other teams in North America and around the world. You will work closely with data engineering and our analytics environment team to ensure that data coverage in client’s Stockholm studio is best in class. You will work closely with advanced analytics, data science, AI/ML teams in the Player and Data Insights organization to deliver data products to new games and to drive efficiencies in decision making. The team today focuses on new games, player experience optimization, and strategy OKRs for our gaming products.

As an Analytics Manager in the Player and Data Insights Team, you will report to the Head of Data Science and Data Engineering for the studios. 

In this role you will

• Lead a small but talented embedded team of analysts and data scientists who partner directly with product teams to enable better player experiences.
• Manage partnerships with local teams in the Stockholm studio and with partner development studios, while also coordinating communication and collaboration with the larger Player and Data Insights Organization around the world.
• Coordinate joint efforts with consumer and brand insights teams to be able to understand player motivations when primary research is needed.
• Identify key learnings from data analysis and synthesize them into recommendations for product teams and leadership.
• Work with the Engineering team and Analytics Environment teams to ensure coverage on tools, technology, and data structures to enable efficiencies in analytics.
• Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques. 
• Subject matter expert in game analytics. Drive ‘hands on’ analysis leveraging Big Data technology across all aspects of the player experience, including acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization.
• Represent the Player and Data Insights team in New Game development efforts, including ensuring that telemetry specs are compliant and compatible with the existing global data ecosystem.
• Ability to zoom into the details of analysis and data products, and zoom out to fully understand the business and player context where analytics are required.
• Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data.
  
  

To succeed in this role, you should have experience in:  

• Managing analytics and data science teams, preferably in video games.
• Building strong relationships with cross functional teams and driving alignment with key partners and decision makers.
• Communicating and presenting across time zones and functions.
• Hands on deep data analysis using advanced PySpark and SQL, experience in mentoring and coaching teams.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms for segmentation, natural language interpretation, classification, and other customer level applications.
• Proven experience in applying statistics for attribution, interpretation of time series, experimentation, and other business applications.
• Familiarity with the Azure ecosystem or equivalent.