Lead Data Analyst

Description

Lighthouse Games is AAA studio in Leamington Spa. We are defined by our pedigree of talent, and serious ambition to build a new best-in-class game. When you join us at Lighthouse, you will be able to create the best work of your career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative. You will learn from the best, and work along side the future greats of the gaming industry.

Reporting to the Director of Live Service, you will lead analytics for a new AAA IP, managing a team of analysts and data engineers to ensure we have the right data, at the right time, to make good decisions.

Key Duties Include

• Lead the analytics roadmap and team, set priorities, manage the backlog and balance speed with data quality
• Own analytics coverage by defining event taxonomies with feature teams and landing instrumentation with Engineering
• Reduce time to insight by maintaining core models and self-serve dashboards and keeping metric definitions clear and consistent
• Drive impact by partnering with Live Services, Game Design, Economy and Monetization to turn analysis into decisions and measured results
• Run forecasting with Monetization and Finance, build outlooks and scenarios and pressure test assumptions
• Lead data governance and privacy by driving compliance across analytics and data pipelines, while monitoring data quality, managing access and keeping documentation current

Requirements

• Significant time spent in games analytics with experience supporting a live title or major live update
• Proven leadership of analysts and data engineers, including setting standards, reviewing work and coaching craf
• Experience with modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow).
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub) for managing analytics codebases
• Strong SQL and excellent spreadsheet skills, able to build cohorts, funnels, retention views and sanity-check models
• Experience defining event taxonomies and working with Engineering to land instrumentation in builds
• Clear communication that tells a story with data and explains trade-offs to creative and commercial partners
• Practical approach to experimentation and decision-making when formal tests are not feasible

Desirable

• Python or R for deeper analysis and forecasting
• Experience with staged rollouts, change control and data quality monitoring
• Background preparing leadership ready performance and outlook summaries

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday, plus 1 day for your birthday
• Studio Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare