Product Analyst

Slingshot Games takes great pride in being one of the key studios for EA Mobile's strategic growth plans. With a long track record of owning, running, and managing an extremely diverse portfolio of games across multiple genres and players, Slingshot is home to some iconic titles like The Sims, Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled, and many others. Slingshot partners with an expansive roster of EA Mobile studios and incubation & production teams to work on some of the biggest IPs such as Battlefield, FIFA, and Need for Speed.

Electronic Arts India, a leading technology company and video game developer in India, brings together talented individuals from diverse backgrounds with a shared passion for inspiring the world to play.

The role

As a Slingshot analytics team member, you will play a crucial role in driving business intelligence. Reporting to the Analytics Manager, you will be responsible for leveraging data to gain valuable insights into player behavior and their interactions with our games and features. With a thoughtful and inquisitive approach, you will utilize data modeling techniques to examine and understand player engagement. Your insights will be instrumental in guiding the design of games, platforms, and live services, aiming to enhance acquisition, retention, and monetization for Slingshot.

Responsibilities:

• Strong statistical and analytical skills with SQL, including pulling and using data to identify and drive critical business decisions.

• Share, present, and promote actionable insights discovered through analytics efforts to improve product feature design and user experiences.

• Respond to a variety of on-demand ad-hoc analytical requests as needed.

• Blend analytical rigor with product knowledge to accomplish deep dives (as needed) and provide actionable recommendations for product teams.

• Use different analysis techniques and model trends in our data to predict how new content, features, and campaigns will affect the economy, performance, and player experience.

• Develop analysis frameworks to measure and evaluate the impact of features, systems, and promotions.

• Use exploratory data analysis techniques to identify meaningful relationships, patterns, or trends from complex data sets and validate your results.

• Develop player clusters based on behavioral patterns, which will be used to customize features and content and improve the player experience.

• Translate problems into structured analyses or data products that create applicable insights that maximize value.

• Partner with engineers and feature owners to design and set up robust telemetry for Slingshot Games that enables high-quality analysis.

• Ensure a high degree of thoughtfulness and quality in all projects and that processes are adopted and best practices are shared.

• Analyze A/B tests for features, events, and promotions, explaining results clearly and concisely.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA or BS in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field

• 4+ years’ experience in a product analytics role using data to help guide decisions, preferably in a consumer products-oriented industry - gaming, social networks, or entertainment.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in data mining, machine learning, or statistical modeling

• Proficiency in statistical analysis and data visualization using tools like Python, R, Looker, Tableau, etc.

• SQL skills, including experience querying complex datasets on a platform such as Snowflake/BigQuery.

• Analyzing A/B Tests and determining statistical significance in A/B testing.

• Experience presenting to people at different levels of business and technical expertise, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.