We are looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist to join our team in Farm Heroes Saga. As a Data Scientist, your primary focus will be on driving data-informed decision-making and optimising product performance. You will play a pivotal role in leveraging data insights to influence strategic decisions and enhance the overall success of our game. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers and designers to leverage data and advanced analytics techniques to extract insights, identify trends, and make recommendations that enhance the player experience and drive business growth. Your expertise in statistical modelling will enable you to uncover actionable insights from complex data sets and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of the game.
Your role within our Kingdom
As a Data Scientist in the Farm Heroes Saga team, you will be embedded in a cross-functional team of product managers, game designers and developers where you will be responsible for the analytical side of the game.
Specifically, you will:
Proactively develop new analyses, experiments and data-driven tools to harness business opportunities
Translate business needs to technical and AB test requirements, then work with development teams to ensure correct implementation and event tracking
Work closely with game designers and product team to scope and design tests to identify potential opportunities (e.g. player behaviour, game economy)
Carefully check and problem solve issues to ensure the correct operations of the game, even when confronted by subtle data complications
Provide a business analytical perspective to discussions and help to drive the priorities within your game
Skills to create thrills
To be successful in this role, you will have a passion for quantitative analysis, understanding player behaviour and will have the ability to draw business insights which will add real value to King.
You will also need to demonstrate your ability to learn quickly and enjoy working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. This role will involve working with teams and individuals across King - such as Game Developers, Producers and Game Artists, so broad communication skills are essential.
You need to be proficient in the following key skills:
Product insight: You are capable of using data to gain deep understanding of game mechanics and impacts on player behaviour to solve business problems such as: feature implementation and optimisations, player economy optimisation, main KPI shift, tracking bugs, marketing impact.
Data Storytelling: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technical skills: You can extract, manipulate and visualise data using different tools and you have an understanding of applied statistics (probability, causality and time series). We make intensive usage of SQL, and the Python/R analytical stack, so having prior experience in these domains is required.
About King
King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!
