Senior Manager of Analytics, Games

3 Months ago • 7 Years + • Data Analyst • $136,000 PA - $155,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The New York Times seeks a Senior Manager of Analytics for its growing Games team. This role involves contributing directly to NYT Games' growth, supporting product feature development and assessment, identifying business opportunities through analysis, and understanding the player experience holistically. Responsibilities include producing insights and transforming data into presentations; developing scenario modeling; managing data, dashboards, and experiments; establishing best practices for A/B testing; building partnerships with various teams; and managing a product analytics team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product analytics, game data analysis, A/B testing, SQL, Python/R, and data visualization tools. People management experience is required.
Must have:
  • 7+ years product analytics experience
  • 4+ years live service game data analysis
  • 4+ years A/B testing experience
  • SQL mastery, impeccable analytical reasoning
  • Python/R expertise, version control knowledge
  • Data visualization expertise (Mode, Tableau, Looker)
  • Subscription/freemium modeling experience
  • People management experience
Good to have:
  • Gaming industry or subscription business experience
  • Advanced quantitative degree
  • dbt and GCP familiarity
  • Experience with product, advertising, marketing, and growth teams
  • Statistics/machine learning application experience

Job Details

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The Times is looking for an analytics leader who is passionate about product analytics and eager for the opportunity to support the growing NYT Games team and business.

You’ll sit within the Data and Insights Group (DIG) supporting the NYT Games mission where you’ll be a critical member of a cross-discipline leadership group focused entirely on Live Operations. The primary goals of this position are to directly contribute to the growth of NYT Games, support the development, launch, and assessment of product features, be an oracle of business and performance trends, discover opportunities for the business through scenario modeling and analysis, and holistically understand the full player experience.

You will report to the Executive Director of Analytics for Games who leads a wide team of data and product analysts that support the entire NYT Games mission. You will be a curious, collaborative team player who inspires others to be as voracious for driving value through relevant findings as you are. You’ll get to work on a product that is beloved by tens of millions of users every week, analyze user behaviors from our different puzzle games, and help NYT Games continue on its journey to be the premier puzzle destination for digital puzzle games.

 

Responsibilities:

  • You will produce insights, advocate for them, and turn them into outcomes; transform data into storytelling presentations about behaviors, trends, and patterns.

  • You will mature the scenario modeling arm of NYT Games; output business models, size opportunities of new features, and improve decision-making

  • You will produce data, deliver dashboards, run experiments, and analyze performance as it relates to the feature release calendar for the Live Ops Group.

  • You will develop best practices for experiment design, including advising on hypothesis generation, sample size, and counter metrics.

  • You will build partnerships with strategy, advertising, growth, marketing and peer teams to gain and share context, define and influence roadmaps, and connect the dots so you can help yourself and others to implement high impact projects

  • You will people manage; foster a psychologically safe and best-of-class product analytics culture.

  • You will demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

 

Basic Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience working with product analytics or data science teams

  • 4+ years hands-on data analysis on a live service game, ideally with a large player base

  • 4+ years experience with A/B testing

  • Mastery of SQL and impeccable analytical reasoning

  • Expertise in Python or R; comfort with version control (Github, code review)

  • Expertise with data visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau, or Looker

  • Experience building subscription, freemium, or free-to-play business projection models

  • People management experience overseeing technical analysts or engineers

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Gaming industry or subscription business experience

  • Advanced quantitative degree

  • Familiarity with dbt and Google Cloud Platform

  • Experience partnering with product, advertising, marketing, and growth teams

  • Experience applying statistics and machine learning to strategic problems

  • Expertise in communicating across multiple teams - written, visually and verbally - to present insights to team members and partners

 

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$136,000$155,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws. 

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