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As a Business Analyst - Content, you'll analyze complex data sets to understand user behavior, improve content recommendations, and optimize user experience.  You will work with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, content, marketing) to ensure data-informed decisions. Key responsibilities include tracking and analyzing content performance across cultures, creating dashboards and reports, analyzing viewer preferences, supporting content acquisition with performance insights, and building forecasting models to predict content success and ROI.  The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in SQL, Excel, product analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude), and BI tools (Tableau).

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<div id="cw-rich-description" style="color:#171B27; margin-bottom: 32px;"> About the opportunity : As a Business Analyst - Content, you will play a critical role in analysing and interpreting complex data sets to help us understand user behaviour,improve content recommendations, optimize user experience, and drive strategic decisions. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including product, engineering, content,and marketing, to ensure our day-to-day work is strongly data-informed. <div> </div>Key responsibilities: <ol><li dir="ltr">Track and analyse content performance across regional cultures. </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Analyse metrics like watch time, completion rates, and engagement for content in different cultures </li><li dir="ltr">Compare performance across cultures to identify successful content patterns </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Create content performance dashboards and reports </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Build automated dashboards showing key content metrics </li><li dir="ltr">Generate regular reports on content performance for stakeholders and content team </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Analyse viewer preferences and behaviour by cultures and regions </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Study how different regions consume content. </li><li dir="ltr">Understand peak viewing times, preferred devices, and viewing patterns by cultures </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Support content acquisition with performance insights and forecasts </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Help acquisition team make data-driven decisions on content purchases </li><li dir="ltr">Predict potential performance of new content based on historical data </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Generate ROI analysis for content investments </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Calculate return on investment for different types of content </li><li dir="ltr">Compare ROI across cultures and genres </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Optimize content scheduling based on viewing patterns </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Recommend best release times for new content </li><li dir="ltr">Optimize content placement on platform based on viewing data </li></ul><li dir="ltr">Create content performance forecasting models </li><ul><li dir="ltr">Build models to predict content success </li><li dir="ltr">Develop viewership forecasts for new content releases </li></ul></ol>Our ideal candidate: Must have: ● 1-4 years of product analytics experience in a B2C context ● Proficiency with SQL, Excel, product analytics (Mix panel, Amplitude or similar) and Business Intelligence (Tableau or similar) tools ● Strong problem-solving skills and an insatiable curiosity to get behind the ‘why’of every problem statement ● Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a cross-functional team Should have: ● Ability to judge what metrics to measure for different problem statements ● Ability to design and run experiments independently ● Ability to write great analysis documents/notes to succinctly communicate your findings to a broad audience ● Experience designing event tracking schemas Nice to have: ● Experience in the OTT/entertainment industry <div dir="ltr"> </div><div> </div> </div>

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This assessment gives us an idea of your C++ skills- Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, Mayhem Studios, etc.- 10 Multiple Choice questions- Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

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Bonfire Studios seeks a Lead Environment Artist to guide their team in creating the immersive world of their new IP, Arkheron.  Responsibilities include leading and mentoring a team of environment artists, driving the creative and technical vision for environment art, crafting immersive game environments from initial concepts, ensuring quality and efficiency of team output, collaborating with other disciplines, and balancing leadership with hands-on asset creation.  The ideal candidate has 7+ years of AAA game development experience in a leadership role, a strong artistic eye, proficiency in industry-standard software (Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, etc.), and a passion for mentorship. This role requires strong ownership, self-drive, and the ability to thrive in a small, collaborative team environment.

<div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div>Bonfire Studios is seeking an exceptional Lead Environment Artist to guide our team in crafting the immersive world of our Arkheron, our latest original IP. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with a deep passion for world-building, a strong artistic vision, and the ability to mentor and inspire a team of talented artists.</div><div> </div><div>In this role, you will be responsible for setting the artistic and technical standards for environment art, driving creative solutions, and ensuring our world is visually stunning and cohesive. This is an opportunity to take ownership, lead by example, and help shape both the game and the team.</div><div> </div><div>Bonfire Studios thrives on collaboration, trust, and shared ownership. As a Lead Environment Artist, you will play a critical role in building a culture of excellence, fostering team growth, and ensuring that our environmental storytelling enhances gameplay and player experience. </div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>About the role…</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Inspire and guide: Lead and mentor a team of environment artists, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment by setting expectations and providing constructive feedback to help artists grow and succeed.</li><li>Shape the vision: Drive the creative and technical vision for environment art, ensuring a consistent and high-quality aesthetic.</li><li>Craft immersive worlds: Take high-level ideas and undefined concepts - even as rough as a whiteboard sketch - and develop them into fully realized game environments.</li><li>Ensure quality and efficiency: Be accountable for the team’s output, delivering polished, immersive worlds that align with gameplay needs.</li><li>Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with design, engineering, and other teams to align art direction with gameplay, technical constraints, and performance goals. Ensure environment art assets meet artistic, technical, and optimization standards for a seamless player experience.</li><li>Balance leadership and hands-on creation: You’ll lead a small, focused, highly collaborative team where you’ll push ideas forward independently, without much guidance, while adapting and iterating based on the needs of the game. You’ll set the standard for quality while guiding the team and contributing to asset creation.</li><li>Embrace innovation: Research new tools, workflows, and techniques to push the quality bar.</li><li>Build the team: Contribute to studio-wide hiring, onboarding, and team-building efforts to cultivate and grow our environment art discipline.</li><li>Foster accountability and self-sufficiency within the team—while support is available, success in this role requires the ability to drive ideas forward and problem-solve proactively.</li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>We’re excited about you because you…</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Are an experienced leader: You have leadership experience in a AAA environment art role and thrive on mentoring and developing teams.</li><li>Thrive on ownership: You have a strong sense of ownership and enjoy being accountable for a team’s success.</li><li>Are self-driven: You thrive in ambiguity and can take a high-level vision and turn it into reality without needing every detail defined.</li><li>Have shipped a AAA title: You have 7+ years of experience as an Environment Artist in game development, with at least one shipped AAA title in a leadership role.</li><li>Excel in small teams: You produce your best work on small, collaborative teams. If you produce your best work on big teams with lots of specialized roles, this is not the right fit for you.</li><li>Have a strong artistic eye: You possess a keen eye for architecture, material definition, lighting, color theory, and world-building.</li><li>Are technically proficient: You are highly proficient in Maya (or other 3D modeling packages), ZBrush, Photoshop, and Substance Painter.</li><li>Understand game engines: You have extensive experience working with game engines (Unreal, Unity) and understand PBR materials, UV layout, performance optimizations, and world-building workflows.</li><li>Value collaboration: You can effectively communicate and collaborate across disciplines.</li><li>Are passionate about mentorship: You are passionate about team development and fostering a positive, inclusive work environment.</li><li>Balance creativity and production: You understand how to balance creative vision with production realities and are skilled at making strategic trade-offs.</li><li>Have a growth mindset: You value both teaching and learning from others.</li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div>The base salary range for this position is $196,500 - $247,133. If your experience is more (principal level) or less (mid-level), your salary will be more/less than that rate (based on market data). We consider candidates' potential impact holistically, not just their years of experience or skill level. There is also more to our total comp package than salary, we offer equity to every new hire as well as a comprehensive benefits package and more. We will be happy to share more about our compensation opportunities when we chat with you!</div><div>You can learn more about Bonfire's studio culture, team, benefits, and perks on our website:<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" style="font-size: 10px;" href="http://www.bonfirestudios.com/"> www.bonfirestudios.com</a>. Any information you submit is used for recruiting purposes only, and is never shared. You can learn more in our<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" style="font-size: 10px;" href="http://www.bonfirestudios.com/privacy"> privacy policy</a></div></div>