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About the Role
Zynga Poker is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to drive decisions impacting millions of players worldwide. This role is crucial in shaping the game's future through data-driven insights, focusing on product strategy, experimentation, business intelligence, and game integrity.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Product team to enhance revenue, retention, and engagement metrics through A/B testing, insights analysis, and dashboard development.
- Analyze player behavior to understand motivations and preferences, translating findings into actionable experience improvements with game design and consumer insights teams.
- Design and maintain ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources, ensuring a source of truth for analyses and business intelligence.
- Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data for improving the game experience.
- Design and maintain a suite of highly visible dashboards for game leadership and designers to make strategic decisions.
- Support the economy team in tuning game features to optimize for long-term game and feature health.
- Play a leading role in the design and continuous improvement of fraud and bad actor models.
- Actively play and engage with games to maintain a first-hand understanding of player experience, game mechanics, and potential pain points.
- Monitor and maintain the integrity of tools and models used to streamline workflows and personalize the player experience, in collaboration with other data analysts and scientists.
- Participate in and contribute to the Analytics Org’s AI initiative to increase analyst impact through LLMs.
- Continuously learn about analytics best practices and promote these practices across various games and teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Minimum of 4 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably in a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team.
- Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and analyses and dealing with ambiguous data.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Demonstrated experience in data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
- Experience/Demonstrated interest in improving analytics team's processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
- 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.
- Strong communication skills - ability to explain complex data in simple, actionable terms.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data mining
- Data visualization
- Statistical analysis
- Machine learning
- LLMs
- Tableau
- Git
- AI/ML concepts
- Automating recurring analytics workflows
Location
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $96,400 - $135,000 per Year
Benefits
- World-class benefits package
- Bonus and/or equity awards
- Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year
- Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days)
- Eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
- Paid parental and compassionate leave
- Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
- Family planning support through Maven
- Commuter benefits
- Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
About the Company
- Zynga brings people together through the power of play.
- A global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive.
- Games have been downloaded over 6 billion times, connecting players in 175+ countries.
- Diverse game portfolio includes FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, and many more.
- Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, with teams spanning North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Zynga is where fun meets innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds.
- Employment is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not on protected characteristics.
- We are committed to providing necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments.
- Contact accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request accommodations or for support related to your application.