Data Scientist - King Platform

We are looking for a talented and creative Data Scientist interested in building and pushing the boundaries of the analytic tools our studios use to improve each and every one of our games.

Your role within our Kingdom

If you want to improve the experience of King’s 300 million+ players across our network of games, then this may be the right opportunity for you. You’ll help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players, while actively participating in the team responsible for providing the tools that our business performance units rely upon to effectively use our data. You will be part of a fast and dynamic team, focusing your attention in areas ranging from automated AB testing, to tracking to real time analytics, while at the same time interacting with the wider community of 80+ data scientists inside the kingdom.

Specifically, you’ll:

Actively support all of our games during their production stage, to ensure they have the proper tracking in place.
Be actively involved in the development of our analytics tool, ranging from AB testing and segmentation to real time streaming analytics.
Actively communicate with both data scientists and game developers.
Propose and help in the implementation of new ideas to make our data tech stack even better
Be supportive and involved with anything related to data inside King Platform: the tech backbone that supports our games.
Skills to create thrills

You have a passion for quantitative analysis and will have the ability to draw business insights which will add real value to King. You will need to demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and will have worked in a fast paced and collaborative environment. This role will involve working with teams and individuals across King - such as data scientists, Game Developers, Business Performance Managers and Marketeers, so excellent communication skills are essential.

While we certainly don’t expect you to have all of these skills from day one, we do expect you to learn and develop in each of the following areas:

SQL: The ability to write complex SQL queries to analyse our databases with 300+ million players, and work effectively with both Hive and relational database systems.
Analytical coding: Using tools such as R, Python for analytical purposes. Also, being comfortable with C++ and Java scripts.
Stats: Understanding the appropriate statistical techniques to use in different circumstances.
Communication: Designing good ways of communicating, explaining or educating other technical and non-technical audiences, not only about your results/analysis but also about the tools and products you are going to help in developing.
Specific experience that might be helpful, but is not required, includes: experience in the games industry or similarly sophisticated customer-facing digital businesses; experience in “big data” systems such as Hadoop, Hive; experience in predictive analytics, segmentation, and related areas; experience in experimental design; software engineering skills in Java and other languages (beyond R and Python which we use most frequently); skills with standard reporting tools such as QlikView/Tableau/etc.

Personal Attributes

Smart – intellectual dexterity
High integrity
Can-do attitude!
Pragmatic problem-solver - someone who looks for solutions rather than worrying about problems
Our Kingdom

Your role within our Kingdom

If you want to improve the experience of King’s 300 million+ players across our network of games, then this may be the right opportunity for you. You’ll help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players, while actively participating in the team responsible for providing the tools that our business performance units rely upon to effectively use our data. You will be part of a fast and dynamic team, focusing your attention in areas ranging from automated AB testing, to tracking to real time analytics, while at the same time interacting with the wider community of 80+ data scientists inside the kingdom.

Specifically, you’ll:

Actively support all of our games during their production stage, to ensure they have the proper tracking in place.
Be actively involved in the development of our analytics tool, ranging from AB testing and segmentation to real time streaming analytics.
Actively communicate with both data scientists and game developers.
Propose and help in the implementation of new ideas to make our data tech stack even better
Be supportive and involved with anything related to data inside King Platform: the tech backbone that supports our games.

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles, and our games are played and enjoyed all around the world. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Malmö, Singapore, Seattle, Shanghai and Stockholm along with offices in Bucharest, Malta, San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), which acquired King in February 2016.