Senior Principal Business Analyst at Xbox Media Solutions (Formerly Activision Blizzard Media) | Barcelona, Catalonia | Rezi

Senior Principal Business Analyst at Xbox Media Solutions (Formerly Activision Blizzard Media)

Senior Principal Business Analyst

Xbox Media Solutions (Formerly Activision Blizzard Media) · Barcelona, Catalonia

2 weeks ago

Senior Principal Business Analyst

Xbox Media Solutions (Formerly Activision Blizzard Media) · Barcelona, Catalonia

16 days ago
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About the Role

This role sits at the intersection of Marketing, Product, Finance, Analytics, and game teams, focusing on improving how King understands, models, and scales growth. You will work on critical commercial questions related to marketing investment, player growth, revenue, and profitability, shaping how models are interpreted, challenging assumptions, and ensuring insights translate into better strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Define the commercial logic behind growth decisions, establishing frameworks for interpreting growth performance and evaluating investment opportunities.
  • Set the standard for growth model interpretation, assessing outputs from various analytical models and ensuring insights are translated into actionable decisions.
  • Strengthen forecasting, elasticity, and investment governance by shaping how assumptions are created, tested, and governed across growth planning.
  • Guide portfolio-level growth trade-offs by bringing structure to complex investment questions across games, channels, geographies, audiences, and marketing initiatives.
  • Connect marketing, product, finance, and company performance by shaping the organization's understanding of the relationships between these areas.
  • Drive better executive decision-making by translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
  • Raise the analytical bar across teams by acting as a senior expert and multiplier, coaching others on commercial reasoning, model interpretation, and executive communication.

Requirements

  • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.
  • Ability to bring structure to complex business questions.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders through analytical depth, commercial judgment, and clear communication.
  • Comfortable working with large datasets and analytical workflows using SQL, Python, R, or similar tools.
  • Ability to explain complex analytical concepts in simple, business-relevant language.
  • Knowledge of tools and platforms such as BigQuery, Looker, Airflow, Python, R, or modern data modelling workflows.

Skills

  • Advanced Analytical and Commercial Thinking
  • Financial and Growth Acumen
  • Elasticity and Forecasting Expertise
  • Technical Fluency and Model Judgement
  • Cross-Functional Influence
  • Executive Communication and Judgement
  • Experience in gaming, mobile apps, digital entertainment, or another high-scale consumer business.
  • Experience working on marketing investment models, response curves, elasticity analysis, forecasting frameworks, attribution models, or commercial planning tools.
  • Experience connecting marketing performance with product outcomes, engagement, retention, monetisation, or portfolio-level financial performance.
  • Experience working closely with Finance teams on forecasts, investment cases, budget planning, or business performance reviews.
  • A passion for using data to improve strategic decision-making, challenge assumptions, and unlock sustainable growth.

Location

  • Stockholm
  • Malmö
  • London
  • Barcelona
  • Berlin
  • Dublin
  • San Francisco
  • New York
  • Los Angeles
  • Malta

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior Principal

About the Company

  • King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with a mission of Making the World Playful.
  • King has over 20 years of history of delivering iconic mobile games, including the Candy Crush franchise.
  • King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users.
  • King is part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).