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The Live Ops Analytics team is adding a talented Sr. Data Scientist embedded with one of our main Call of Duty studios. As a member of the Live Ops Analytics team, your mission is to put science into decision making. Responsibilities include:

  • Develop novel analytics and contribute to the vision and execution of Activision’s analytic strategy by creating comprehensive analyses, innovative methodologies, and algorithms and prototypes
  • Build statistical models with large datasets to derive meaningful insights that effect actionable business decisions
  • Work closely with various stakeholders to investigate topics related to user experience, segmentation, retention and monetization utilizing full range of data toolkits from descriptive analytics to predictive modeling
  • Measure the impact of features, promotions, store offerings, and events through experimentation and causal inference to fuel recommendations
  • Democratize and socialize learnings by contributing to a centralized repository that informs future game design, and is carried across titles and franchises
  • Collaborate across studio, product management, and engineering support teams to enable easier testing and experimentation
  • Automate and productionize analysis and studies that improve long-term decision making
  • Deliver presentations on analytic topics and results to both technical and non-technical audiences

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

  • BA/BS degree required with technical focus (Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or a related quantitative field); MS/PhD a plus
  • Strong technical skills with SQL, R/ Python for data analysis; demonstrated programming skills either in data science or software development settings a plus
  • Experience building supervised and unsupervised data models in R or Python
  • Deep understanding of AB testing, experimentation, and causal inference methodologies
  • Skilled at deriving narrative from data and communicate the results effectively
  • Play games, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment/ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps a plus
  • Work experience in cross-functional teams a plus
  • Deep product sense, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment/ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps a plus

Extra Points:

  • Demonstrated business impact, with a focus on player engagement, and player experience
  • Clear, concise and data-driven insights leading to business action and the optimization of systems
  • Relationships & communication – as an embedded team member, you build trust with the studio and are a conduit of knowledge to & from Global Analytics
  • Contributes to company learnings and proactively documents results
  • Participates in feedback conversations with supervisor and peers, and can adapt approach when needed
  • Drives measurable engagement and revenue impact through analysis and statistical models

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame 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.