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Nintendo of America Inc.

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo Switch™ system and the Nintendo 3DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.7 billion video games and more than 740 million hardware units globally, including Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS™ family of systems, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™, Wii™ and Wii U™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names, such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokémon. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

  • Develop and refine models to predict consumer behavior and help prescribe actions to improve forecasting, personalization, customer engagement, and monetization
  • Continuously identify new data sources; explore, consolidate unstructured and diverse data, and incorporate into analyses and models. Work with engineering colleagues to onboard data as needed
  • Transition proof of concept models into scalable productionalized solutions for consumer facing experiences
  • Gain deep insight into player behavior and business impact; present findings to internal stakeholders
  • Support exploration of new technologies and analysis methods to identify growth / efficiency opportunities
  • Interacts with product, marketing, and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
  • Help educate, influence, and inspire adoption of data science best practices

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS

  • 2 - 4 years of experience working in an industry setting in a data-driven centric role
  • 1+ year hands-on experience building predictive models on real-world data
  • Solid understanding in statistical modeling (regression, sampling, MLE, etc.)
  • Proficient with utilizing statistical learning algorithms from open source software (e.g. R, Python, etc.); should be able to write own code as needed to customize solutions
  • Comfortable getting and preparing data; this includes using SQL as well as dealing with unstructured data that might require calling APIs, or writing custom scripts
  • Take ownership of work and operate under minimal supervision
  • Experience working in digital marketing, CRM, or related domain is highly desirable
  • Passion and depth of knowledge for video games, technology, and entertainment market
  • Experience utilizing cloud computing platforms to handle Big Data preferred
  • Expertise in causal inference preferred
  • Ability to speak and write fluent Japanese a strong plus, but not required
  • Graduate degree (or equivalent knowledge) in a quantitative field required
  • Masters or PhD preferred

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