Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data Analyst

Firemonkeys, Electronic Arts’ leading mobile games studio, located in Melbourne, Australia is home to the preeminent Sims’ experience on mobile, The Sims FreePlay. We are always looking for creative craftspeople to collaborate with. Your skills and curiosity will help expand the Sims FreePlay world that empowers our passionate players to create Sims experiences that are unique to them. If you want to work with a team that values your voice and growth, where you can inspire our corner of the globally recognized Sims’ universe, as well as experiencing everything cosmopolitan Melbourne has to offer, read on!

We are seeking an inquisitive and experienced Data Analyst to join our Product Management team on The Sims FreePlay. Reporting to the Director of Product, you will work with peers and stakeholders to understand player engagement, session behaviors, game usage and spending habits, and to identify product growth opportunities. You will use your skills to provide data-driven solutions to complex problems, translate qualitative/quantitative data into insights, and create recommendations to steer the product development and live operational roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver timely and high quality insights into player behavior in order to guide product priorities and decisions.
• Design, implement, and report on A/B tests to enhance user experience, using statistical methods to draw meaningful conclusions.
• Perform advanced statistical analyses to identify trends and patterns, offering actionable insights.
• Develop reliable dashboards and self-serve tools to communicate findings and performance metrics, encouraging data-driven decision-making.
• Data engineering: build and maintain performant data pipelines; ensure data quality and governance. Optimize table performance to improve time to insights and reduce cost.
• Communicate results and findings throughout the organization, ensuring all levels of leadership are informed.
• Partner with data engineering to ensure data pipelines stay performant.
• Thoroughly understand business priorities and maintain deep familiarity with the game by continuously playing and understanding its systems and players

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Analytics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in an analytics role performing quantitative analysis with big data to help guide decisions.
• Experience in SQL and ability to extract data from large data sources with differing structures.
• Hands-on experience in data mining, machine learning, or statistical modeling
• Hands-on experience with basic data engineering, including ETL scripting and setup, efficient table design, and data pipeline maintenance.
• Experience with R and or Python
• Analyzing A/B Tests and determining statistical significance in A/B testing.
• Experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Looker).
• Experience influencing and presenting to people at different levels of business and technical expertise, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
• Passion for mobile gaming and The Sims is a plus.

The Perks:

• Modern office conveniently located next to major transport links
• Unwind after a busy week with drinks and nibbles
• Structured Hybrid work (min 3 days in office)
• Quarterly team events for team building
• 2 Development Days (Project and Personal) every 6 weeks, including Game Jam x Xmas party week in December
• Commuting and Work from Home claimable benefits
• Yearly Global Fitness benefit
• 10 free EA games per year
• Digital Game reimbursement benefit
• Unique Firemonkeys and Sims merch
• Health insurance subsidies