Data Scientist | Candy Crush Soda Saga

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Data Scientist – Candy Crush Soda Saga

Are you excited about using data to shape the future of Candy Crush Soda and drive even better experiences for millions of players? Do you have a passion for pricing, feature optimization, and uncovering new monetization opportunities? Join our Monetisation & Economy team and help us make an impact at scale!

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Data Scientist in the Candy Crush Soda Saga team, you will develop new monetization features, optimize existing ones, and discover opportunities to enhance player engagement and revenue. You'll partner with product and other stakeholders to leverage data in creative ways, influencing key decisions that shape the future of the game.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, Test, and Measure: Develop new monetization features and work closely with product teams to design and execute A/B tests that measure the impact of feature changes or pricing strategies. Ensure correct data collection for meaningful and precise analysis.
• Optimize Existing Features: Use data analysis and modeling to optimize existing monetization features, identifying opportunities for improvements based on player behavior and testing results.
• Discover Opportunities: Leverage data to uncover new opportunities for growth and feature optimization, using experimentation, modeling, and deep-dive analysis to guide product decisions.
• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical requirements, ensuring that data is tracked and analyzed effectively for decision-making. Ensure data-driven initiatives are clearly connected to business value and strategic objectives.
• Methodology & Tooling: Contribute to the evolution of methodologies and tooling to improve the capabilities of the broader data science community at King.

Skills to create thrills

• Analytical & Statistical Expertise: Strong ability to choose and adapt models based on the task at hand. Strong statistical and probabilistic intuition, with the capacity to identify when simple or complex solutions are appropriate. Experience in fields such as behavioral psychology, economics, or experimental design is a plus.
• A/B Testing: Expertise in designing and interpreting A/B tests to measure product changes and assess player response.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python or R is essential. Experience with tools like Looker, Shiny, Streamlit, GitHub, Docker and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure are strong bonuses.
• Communication & Business Impact: Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain data insights in actionable ways. Capable of connecting data science outcomes to business objectives, showing how initiatives impact revenue and player engagement.
• Experience in the gaming industry is a plus, but not required.

Cultural Fit & Collaboration

• We value humility and a willingness to learn. We are a low-prestige team where collaboration and growth are highly valued.
• The role involves working closely with product teams and explaining data insights in ways that help shape product decisions.

Hybrid Work Setup

• We offer flexibility with a hybrid setup. While in-person collaboration is highly valued, and many team members take advantage of it regularly, the role allows for flexibility in balancing office time with remote work.

Join Us

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced, dynamic team with a direct impact on what millions of people play. If you’re a curious and driven data scientist eager to apply your skills to exciting challenges, we want to hear from you!

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.