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Job Title:Senior Analyst - Mobile GamesRequisition ID:R001271Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Analyst - Mobile Games

Reporting To: Senior Manager, Analytics

Department: Global Analytics, Player Science - Mobile

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Your Mission

The Player Science team develops data-driven insights and tools to integrate into Activision's games and their operations. We work at the interface of game design, big data engineering, and math to help deliver epic entertainment experiences.

The team is adding a talented Analyst embedded with our Mobile games division. As a member of the Player Science team, your mission is to put science into decision making. You will work closely with Activision business stakeholders, various studio partners, international publishing partners, and data scientists to derive meaningful insights and recommendations for development and business decisions.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated data expert who wants to grow their analytics toolset in a fast-paced business environment, focused on delivering value to stakeholders, and has a passion for video games. Because you also understand gamers' mindset, you are reliably able to qualitatively deduce and draw quantitative conclusions from player behavioral data that directly influence game design, play balance, player retention and monetization. If this sounds like it may be the perfect role for you, it probably is.

Responsibilities

  • Closely work with various stakeholders to answer mission-critical questions by translating data into an analysis of metrics, new or existing dashboards, and data deep dives
  • Work with game developers to identify and track key performance metrics and benchmarks related to user behavior, user segmentation, user retention and monetization
  • Work closely with the live services teams to optimize play balance, game economies, and to identify and close out exploits
  • Deliver presentations on analytic topics and results to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Collaborate with data scientists in predictive model development, deployment, and performance tracking and validation

Player Profile

  • BA/BS degree required with technical focus (e.g. computer science, physics, engineering)
  • 3-5 years experience in customer/client facing analytics role
  • Strong technical skills with SQL and data analysis and visualization tools in R/Python
  • Skilled at being able to derive the narrative from the data and tell convincing stories
  • Team-oriented, ability to build long-lasting relationships effectively

Extra Credit

  • MS or Ph.D. degree a plus
  • Worked in cross-functional teams a plus
  • Experience in gaming a plus
  • Gameplay analysis experience a plus, with a solid understanding of player engagement and monetization strategies in gaming
  • Mandarin language skills a plus

Your Platform

We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.

Our World

Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us!

Ask anyone who works at Activision, or with Activision, their favorite thing about it, and they’ll tell you, it’s the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure and resources, but our success doesn’t come from assembly lines producing widgets. Our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee’s brilliance. So if you’re interested in our biggest priority, it’s the people.

Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world’s biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our portfolio includes Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™.

Activision is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe. Activision Blizzard is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. A member of the S&P 500 and recognized on the 2018 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Activision Blizzard has operations throughout the world with approximately 10,000 employees and players in 196 countries.

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.