2K Games Dublin is a hub passionate about performance marketing (including mobile User Acquisition), commercial strategy, data engineering and data science/analytics and is part of the 2K Games group of companies.

2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming devices and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. 2K is a leading publisher of today’s most popular gaming genres and most well-known for critically acclaimed game franchises like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.

This role is part of the 2K Commercial Operations team that is responsible for its P&L, business strategy, and operations globally. We partner across the organization through influence and relationships to orchestrate a unified, effective, and scalable effort. At any given moment we are the supporter, leader, approver, and/or responsible party with other internal and external teams.

What We Need:

We are seeking a highly skilled business analyst who excels at developing effective analytical models and frameworks to optimize business decision making, collecting data directly from company data sources (i.e., SQL, Tableau) and optimally collaborating and communicating across all major functions to improve business performance.

A structured problem-solver and decision maker! Take a detailed approach to executing recommendations and building cross-functional influence. Work very well with colleagues across functions, geographies, and skillsets to orchestrate and communicate a coherent strategy and execution. Enjoy looking at the big picture and then translating that to specific execution that you analyze and iterate on to improve. Are phenomenal at telling a thoughtful story to describe and evangelize your view while welcoming and incorporating feedback from partners. Enjoy structuring an ambiguous and sophisticated problem and testing-and-learning from hypotheses. Have an analytical background and operational experience achieving results and executing growth plans in dynamic, sophisticated situations with a range of partners. This is a 6-month contract role which is based in the heart of Dublin city.

What You Will Do:

Become a go-to data specialist within Commercial Operations focusing on optimizing product lifecycles for profitability.
Forecast short, medium and long term product performance to understand current and predict future product performance. Have the capability to drive appropriate action against risks and opportunities.
Develop and report critical metrics, models, and analyses for commercial/user behavior insights and to rally teams to recommended actions.
Evaluate and find opportunities and challenges with game performance (user, gameplay, systems, monetization, telemetry) and build compelling summaries on how various team can use these insights to improve performance.
Competitive analyses to benchmark internal product performance and help size market opportunities for new titles.
You are comfortable analysing large data sets with a reasonable proficiency with SQL. You can connect data analytics with the real world marketplace.

Who We Believe Will Be a Phenomenal Fit:

You love gaming!
An analytical approach and are forward-thinking and seek to disprove your own hypotheses.
Experienced and hands-on with data analytics.
Use/adapt sophisticated analytical tools and techniques to support decision making.
Equally comfortable in discovery and production phases of a project and thrive in the start-up stage and scaling stage of business operations to drive growth.
Excellent communication skills, with a proven track record of working across all levels of the organization and personality types – having the information is one thing, you enjoy and excel at evangelizing insights, coordinating teamwork, and persuading colleagues, peers, and leaders to action.
Ability to build great chemistry with others, are purposeful and dedicated with your energy, and raise everyone’s game around you. You prize team success over individual achievement.

What Skills Are Needed:

3+ years of professional experience in a data/business analyst role.
Strong analytical, quantitative skills and business judgement to model sophisticated scenarios and apply insights to strategy and planning.
Experience packaging and presenting your analysis, conclusions and recommendations to executives and senior leaders within your company.
A genuine interest in the Video games industry and knowledge of console and PC games.
Knowledge and/or application of Statistics and Machine Learning is a plus.
Have experience deploying analytics to drive decision making ideally in the context of product lifecycle management.
Technically not a "skill", but, you are comfortable with working hours 10am-6:30pm enabling greater connection with our US HQ.