Senior Product Analyst - Incident Management

2 Months ago • 3 Years + • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Product Analyst focused on incident detection and prevention at King, you will be responsible for ensuring a smooth player experience. Collaborating with various teams, your key responsibilities include conducting pre-release risk analysis, leading incident investigations, overseeing monitoring processes, managing game-specific alerts, and coordinating incident response and communication. You will leverage your analytical expertise in SQL, Python/R, and time series analysis to proactively prevent incidents and maintain seamless game operations. This role requires 3+ years of experience in a similar analytical role, preferably within the gaming industry.
Must have:
  • 3+ years analytical experience
  • Proficient in SQL, Python/R
  • Incident investigation & prevention
  • Risk analysis & monitoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration
Good to have:
  • Experience with Anodot
  • Time series analysis & forecasting
  • Experience in advertising, gaming, tech or management consulting
  • Master's or PhD in relevant field

Job Details

Craft:

Data, Analytics & Strategy

Job Description:

As a Senior Product Analyst focused on incident detection and prevention, you will be the guardian of our kingdom, dedicated to delivering the smoothest, most enjoyable experience for our players. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, game teams, and backend tech teams to not only respond quickly to disruptions but also proactively work to prevent incidents from impacting our kingdom. Your expertise in analytics will be a key asset in maintaining seamless operations and ensuring players continue to experience their moments of magic.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Risk Analysis : Conduct thorough pre-release risk analysis, feature-specific monitoring, and player support-driven investigations. 

  • Incident Investigations: Lead in-depth investigations of slow-moving incidents and provide internal risk and cost estimates.

  • Monitoring : Oversee comprehensive monitoring processes, including feature-level monitoring, release, and dedicated work-hour monitoring. 

  • Alerting : Create and Manage game specific alerts (e.g., Anodot) and ensure effective monitoring of recommendation models.

  • Incident Coordination & Communication: Coordinate live incident management and mitigation efforts, ensuring timely internal communication and driving retrospectives to improve future processes.

Experience
 

  • Previous experience in similar role

  • Game industry experience

Knowledge & Skills
 

  • Work experience: 3+ years experience working in an analytical role

  • Highly proficient in SQL as well as sufficient skills in Python or R for numerical analysis.

  • Prior experience working directly with other peers in data, engineering, operations and business intelligence. 

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

  • Experience with time series analysis and forecasting

Nice to have

Prior experience within advertising, gaming, tech or management consulting

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, 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 acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
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