Analytics Director, Product Area I Candy Crush Soda Saga

As Analytics Director working within a key Product Area in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will lead a high-performing team delivering critical insights that shape Soda’s economy, monetisation, and content strategies. Your leadership will empower the product area to make data-informed decisions that enhance engagement, increase revenue, and tailor the game to all players at all times.

This role combines hands-on strategic thinking with people leadership. You’ll partner with cross-functional leaders, elevate analytics practices, and ensure that your team’s work drives real player and business impact.

Your role within the Kingdom

• Lead a team of ~10 data scientists, enabling excellence across experimentation, player insights, economy modelling, and performance analysis.
• Partner with product leads to define priorities, shape product strategy, and measure progress against strategic objectives.
• Champion lifecycle- and monetisation-focused analytics, ensuring the team delivers actionable insights that enhance both player experience and revenue generation.
• Drive the design and evaluation of experiments across multiple product themes, improving our understanding of player behaviour and response.
• Act as the analytics voice within leadership and represent the product area in Soda and King-wide data forums.
• Contribute to scalable analytics frameworks, reusable tooling, and data methodologies that enable speed and quality across teams.
• Coach and develop your team, building a strong, empowered, and engaged analytics craft
• Collaborate closely with Finance, Game Design, and Central Analytics to connect business outcomes to player behaviour and economic drivers.

Skills to Create Thrills

• Proven ability to lead and grow a high-performing analytics team in a fast-paced product environment.
• Strong experience applying analytics to monetisation, economy systems, and player lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic thinking — able to connect insights to product and business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of experimentation, product analytics, and data storytelling.
• Advanced skills in SQL and familiarity with statistical packages (e.g. R, Python) and data visualisation tools.
• 5+ years of professional experience in analytics, with relevant experience leading analytical roles such as Data Scientists and Product Analysts.
• Background in gaming or consumer tech preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required; advanced degree a plus.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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