Lead Data Analyst

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Lead Data Analyst, you will…

• Lead a small team of data analysts focused on engagement, performance, and stability for a portfolio of Bethesda’s games (usually 2-3 related titles)
• Partner with design, production, and business counterparts to elicit and document data needs, gather requirements, and translate them into product specifications and development priorities.
• Establish guidelines and documentation for the data analytics workflow; act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on the use of analytics to support product vision and goals. 
• Mentor team members on analytics and communication best practices; conduct feedback and reviews to ensure their growth and smooth integration of new team members.
• Identify trends in game and business data to advise development team and senior leadership on product strategy and opportunities based on technical expertise, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and forecasting.
• Provide actionable insights and analysis to our development and business teams to facilitate the full cycle of game development
• Act as a subject matter expert and resource for best practices in accessing and analyzing data using available reporting methods
• Own the roadmap for data analytics products supporting the product strategy for assigned portfolio of titles. Assist with task assignment towards that goal, when necessary.
• Work with data and gameplay programmers to design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable data products, ensuring that they meet high standards of performance, usability, and accuracy

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You have 5 or more years of experience in a data analyst role.
• You have 3 or more years of experience in a lead or manager role
• You possess management skills, including the capacity to provide feedback to and help direct a team of data analysts as well as manage programs for data collection.
• You have applied knowledge of current data analysis visualization techniques, including practical experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Looker)
• You have strong critical thinking skills with knowledge and experience in analytic techniques and statistics
• You have strong to advanced SQL knowledge, including familiarity with statistical, aggregate, and windowing functions
• You are able to gather requirements and define business needs for data collection and analysis, especially within the game development field
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills

• You have a passion for Bethesda Game Studios titles

Salary Range

Lead Data Analyst - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $115,000 - $220,000 per year.

ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.