Senior Product Analyst | Candy Crush Saga

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Job Description:

We are looking for a dedicated and creative Senior Product Analyst interested in pushing our topline performance as a part of the Candy Crush Saga In-App Purchase & Economy area. You will get the opportunity to be part of a great team, working with an industry leading and genre defining game with over 200 million active players. 

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Senior Product Analyst focusing on our In-App Purchases, you will partner with product managers, product analysts, and data scientists (among others) to improve performance of the monetization in Candy Crush from a business, strategy, and product perspective. You will be working with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include

• Perform quantitative & qualitative analyses to identify product and monetization opportunities for Candy Crush Saga in-app purchases

• Design in-game experiments and perform AB-tests to validate product opportunity hypotheses and improve business outcomes

• Partner with product managers to drive ad-hoc analytical and strategic workstreams to drive step-changes in in-app purchases performance, such as pricing strategy

• Communicate results of your analysis in a clear and concise manner, with an understanding of data visualization and the importance of drawing accurate conclusions from multiple data sources

• Define best practices, new KPIs and inquisitive processes for reporting on our progress to the rest of the immediate team and fellow Candy Crushers

Skills to create thrills

You are a passionate problem solver with both a commercial and analytical skill set and experience driving workstreams independently. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating efficiently with teams and individuals across King.

Who you are 

• You have experience from a business role (strategy, management consulting, pricing, etc.) focused on topline improvements in a B2C environment, and an analytical skill set with a passion for data-driven decision making

• You have knowledge about key pricing and commercial methods and techniques

• You are experienced with driving workstreams independently and approaching abstract business and strategy problems

• You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment

• Effective communicator with a shown ability to get analytical insights across to teams and individuals

• You have an interest in product and games development

• You are confident in SQL and data extraction and likely know Python, R or similar 

• Masters’ or PhD Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Engineering or similar field or work experience.

Bonus points

• Work experience in the mobile gaming industry or similar

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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, Los Angeles, 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 recently acquired by Microsoft.