About the job
What you'll do
- Leadership and Strategy: Provide visionary leadership for the data and insights team. Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with our company’s goals and enhances our gaming platforms. Also develop and implement a mission and vision for your team.
- Data Science and Analytics: Oversee the design and implementation of analytics models and algorithms to predict trends, user behavior, and game performance.
- Data Infrastructure: Direct the development and maintenance of robust data infrastructure, including a data lake with trusted data, to support large-scale data aggregation and analysis. Work with the Avalanche central tech function to make sure that the tools we use are world class and low on maintenance.
- Market and User Insights: Lead market research and user insights efforts to understand market trends, player needs, and satisfaction drivers. Translate insights into actionable recommendations for game development and marketing strategies. Build and cultivate a proactive insights culture through the usage of a brand tracker and regular internally distributed reports.
- User Research: Lead and expand user research initiatives to better understand player journeys, game interactions and experiences through research methods such as interviews, live usability tests and other studies.
- Collaboration and Integration: Work closely with game development teams, publishing, marketing, and executive leadership to ensure that data insights are integrated into all facets of business decision-making and product development.
- Team Development: Build and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists, engineers and research professionals. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team. Hire strong candidates into key roles.
- Foster a Test-Driven Culture: Champion a culture of experimentation and testing within the organization, emphasizing the importance of A/B testing and other empirical methods to guide decisions. Encourage the use of data and testing in new initiatives, feature developments, live service games, prototyping and strategy adjustments.
Who you are
- Exceptional leadership experience at a senior level within the gaming industry.
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Math, Computer Science or a related field.
- Deep understanding of the video game industry, including player behavior and motivation.
- Experience with big data technologies and data visualization tools.
- Demonstrated ability in leading or working with market research and user insight projects.
- Game industry experience.
- Excellent English communication skills with the ability to convey complex insights to stakeholders as well as being capable of working effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strategic decision-making abilities.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
About The Company
Avalanche Studios Group is a leading interactive entertainment company, offering a rich portfolio of games from its divisions Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction, including the Just Cause franchise, Rage 2, theHunter: Call of the Wild and Generation Zero.
Avalanche Studios Group is committed to being a truly inclusive and sustainable workplace that creates innovative games through the power of our people’s creativity. All of Avalanche Studios Group games are developed using the proprietary Apex engine, enabling vast open worlds with endless creative possibilities.
Learn more at www.avalanchestudios.com/
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