Senior Data Analyst

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishes titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios are responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms. Include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building, and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, problem solvers, and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What We Need

We are seeking a senior data analyst who will enable the game Studio behind one of our top titles to confidently make data driven decisions. The ideal candidate will be responsible for delivering data tools, telemetry, dashboards, and compelling insights to influence game development and growth. You will be someone who has a strong balance of business thinking alongside analytical and technical skills.

What You Will Do

• Business Insight: Understand the problems our studios and partners want to solve, and then define the right data, metrics, analysis, and interpretation to lead to the right recommendations and decisions

• Understand players: Help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players and enable our studios to launch new titles, develop features, and live ops events.
• ETL pipeline: Owning ETL pipeline for one of our top titles by partnering closely with data engineering
• Telemetry design: Collaborating with our studio developers and designing in-game telemetry to measure player behavior
• As the technical data expert in communications with partners and providing regular game health updates to partners as well as leadership teams.
• Creating and maintaining reporting dashboards: leading all aspects of data quality, and amalgamating data from multiple sources for creating and tracking key critical metrics.

What Will Make You a Great Fit  

• SQL: The ability to write sophisticated SQL queries to analyze our databases with millions of players and work with relational database systems.
• Familiar with prominent infrastructures: Snowflake, Redshift etc.
• Analytical coding: Proficiency in programming via languages such as Python or R
• Visualization: Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau or Looker
• Tech skill: Shown experience with some or all the following: statistics, experimental design, machine learning, predictive modeling, deep learning
• Excellent attention to detail, natural curiosity, and ability to problem-solve creatively.
• Self-starter- proactively dive deep into the data, develop analytical hypotheses, and come up with practical insights for improving the product.

Bonus Points 

• Familiarity with telemetry/analytics SaaS tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude)
• Familiarity with massive data sets and tools to deal with them (E.g. Snowflake, Databricks, AWS)
• Experience in behavioral psychology/economics and experimental design
• Knowledge and love for the NBA and WWE franchises

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform their essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation.

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