We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to drive strategic analysis focused on identification, evaluation, and execution of opportunities to drive growth and operational excellence for Blizzard games’ success in China.

RESPONSIBILITY

Construct the vision for product-wide analysis to find compelling and actionable business insights. Address high level strategic questions through a holistic planning including. clarifying on the question, developing hypotheses, building analytic structure to address the hypotheses.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, marketing, developers and external partners to deliver impactful insights.
Scope and perform analyses, provide detailed analytical reports, develop KPIs, and produce self-service dashboards from a massive raw dataset to drive business decisions.
Effectively present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
Analyze player behavior across different game titles, cohorts, and lifecycle stages, and translate insights into clear business recommendations
Support product and game ops teams with deep-dive analyses on features, events, economy balance, and live tuning decisions.
Partner closely with Product, Game Ops, Marketing, and Commercial teams as a trusted analytics advisor.
Build and maintain analytical models (e.g., cohort analysis, funnel analysis, LTV, churn drivers).
Identify data gaps and work with data engineering or platform teams to improve data quality and availability.
Help define analytics best practices, metrics definitions, and data governance standards.
Proactively identify opportunities to automate and scale recurring analyses.
Perform other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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.
Ability to manage analytical projects from requirement gathering to presentation and reporting.
Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of work experience in data analysis, preferably in Gaming, Management Consulting, eCommerce or Entertainment industry.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
Experience communicating and advocating with analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision making
Proficient in SQL; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau; R or Python knowledge is a plus
Proven track record of influencing business or product decisions through data insights.
Strong business acumen; able to frame analysis in the context of commercial and product impact.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.

Extra

A long time gamer, understand gamer behaviors and the gaming community.
Experience supporting live service games (GaaS) or multi-title portfolios.
Experience working with regional partners (especially China) and global stakeholders.