Blizzard Entertainment games don’t just begin with game ideas, or end once those games are released. A lot more goes into the creation of a Blizzard product than the work of developers—and we support our games for years after they’re in the hands of gamers world-wide.
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a Data Analyst, Unannounced Project (Mobile) to drive strategic analysis focused on identification, evaluation, and execution of opportunities to drive growth and operational excellence for our games.
Covid-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.
Responsibilities
- Guide the vision for product-wide analysis from beginning to end. Address high level strategic questions through a holistic planning including clarifying on the question, developing hypotheses, building analytic structure to address the hypotheses.
- Deliver on the vision for product-wide analysis using the appropriate solution for each analysis.
- Collaborate with Game Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and co-developer partners to deliver business impact.
- Effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences for business and gameplay projects alike. Partner with the team to develop recommendations from those findings and translate those recommendations into efficient action plans for senior management.
- Write effective queries that return results accurately, maximize database efficiency, and are ready to scale for the future. Contribute to the development of telemetry messaging for multiple features with scalability in mind.
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills, demonstrated by the ability to structure an issue and analyze alternative solutions.
- Curious, internally-motivated self-starter with ability to plan, organize, and establish priorities to manage multiple projects and achieve results.
- Have the ability to structure a concise, clear presentation of findings, based on large sets of complex data, and effectively present this to any level in the organization with appropriate visualizations.
- Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of work experience in Gaming in a data centric role.
- Experience communicating and advocating with analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision making.
- Hands on experience with AB testing and/or data powered features; including test or feature design, execution, analysis and continuous performance monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: data modeling, statistics, experimental design, predictive modeling, data engineering, or workflow scheduling.
- Experience guiding and helping others solve broad, impactful analytical problems
- Strong skills in SQL (BigQuery, Hive, Redshift, Vertica, etc…)
- Strong skills in a data visualization tool (Tableau, Looker, Datastudio, etc...)
- Bonus list; experience with any of the following: Airflow, Python, Git, Passionate Gamer, Soft Launching, Team Improvement, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Protobuf, Github workflows
