Senior Staff Data Scientist - Activision Blizzard Media
San Francisco - King - Embarcadero Center
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 143K - 264K
Activision Blizzard
Job Title:
Senior Staff Data Scientist - Activision Blizzard MediaRequisition ID:
R022933Job Description:
Activision Blizzard Media and King (a part of Activision-Blizzard) are building a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players, and to create powerful marketing solutions embraced by the world's biggest marketers. Activision Blizzard Media is seeking a passionate Data Scientist interested in pushing the boundaries of mobile games analytics and advertising product performance.
Your role within our Kingdom
Leverage understanding of metrics, testing methodology and business strategy to help define the roadmap of the company.
Promote and use advanced modeling techniques (eg. reinforcement learning, time series forecasting, causal methods) to provide precise measurement of our player base and build data products powering our advertising platform.
Present and visualise results in a clear and concise way to senior management for decision making.
Lead data-driven decision making by partnering with key cross-functional teams and leadership.
Proactively identify and lead improvements to the execution of research and analytics within the Data Science team.
Skills to create thrills
4+ years experience as a data scientist in a technology company
Can research, identify and disseminate best practices across teams in terms of tools, systems and processes.
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional audiences (e.g Product, Engineering, Business Strategy).
You are methodological and practical; able to prioritize and assist with business requests i.e. analyzing A/B tests, strange player behaviour, complex interaction dynamics, etc.
Experience with a broad set of statistical and machine learning methods to solve and optimize critical business problems and metrics
Bonus points
Prior experience in advertising data products.
Ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced, rapidly changing and collaborative environment.
The ability to write complex SQL queries and work effectively in any functional programming language for numerical analysis purposes.
Strong adherence to data driven development and design, with an experimental and analytical approach to product improvement..
Able to show good communication skills, and experience in visualising and reporting learnings.
Be Part of an Exciting Team
Activision Blizzard Media is a young and rapidly growing business that has been created to connect advertisers with our 260M global consumer base. This thriving start-up effort, which is currently embedded in the business unit of King (the makers of the #1 mobile game Candy Crush Saga) is rapidly scaling and is poised to become one of the largest advertising businesses in the world.
The business has been focusing on the introduction of premium, innovative advertising experiences to King’s 260M casual gaming players. Looking ahead, we’re planning the launch of advertising across the rest of the Activision Blizzard portfolio including high growth areas like eSports. This is a really exciting time to join this growing business.
Apply now!
Want to join our Kingdom?
You can find more information on our culture, values and benefits, including relocation packages at jobs.king.com. And we will be happy to tell you more about the role and about us.
You should submit your application in English.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.
In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $143,060.00 - $264,846.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.Tags: A/B testing Engineering Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning Research SQL Statistics Testing
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Competitive pay Fitness / gym Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Relocation support Salary bonus Startup environment
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