Product Analyst | Candy Crush

1 Week ago • 1-3 Years

About the job

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Product Analyst at King drives experimentation to improve Candy Crush, collaborating with product managers, developers, data scientists, and operators. This role requires strong analytical skills with SQL, data visualization, and a programming language like R or Python. Experience with data modeling, statistics, and product design cycles is a plus.

Craft:

Data, Analytics & Strategy

Job Description:

Position summary

The job of a product analyst (PA) is to drive the experimentation cycle to create insights to improve our understanding and decision making, in collaboration with product managers. The PA works cross-functionally with developers, data scientists and operators. Using existing tooling, the PA conducts analyses and makes clear recommendations on how to deliver value to our players and business.

What is the Product Analyst accountable for?

Insights
Making sure that product or feature development is supported from an analytical performance perspective.

Operations
Taking ownership of experimentation cycles, from start to end in problem formulation to solution implementation.

What are the areas of responsibility and what are the deliverables within each area?

Opportunity identification

Support the product/feature maturity and delivery with evaluation, recommendations, and performance reporting.
Identify data-driven opportunities to support PMs with data/tech coordination and analysis.
Work on problems both with and without predefined solutions or operational guidelines.

High quality analytics

Use knowledge about existing tools, methodologies, and insights to both deepen analytical understanding (learn and explore) and apply these to different problems.
Identify relevant KPIs quickly and focus analysis on those.

Managing workflow

With support, slice work smartly to deliver value continuously and mitigate risk.
Ensure a consistent volume of experiments and analysis output.

Communication

Effectively share the right insights from analysis with colleagues so that they can use learnings or make decisions based on the analysis.
Clearly communicate updates of ongoing work either through already existing forums or by request.
Collaborate with Product managers, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Commercial leaders to deliver business impact.

Skills to create thrills:

BS or master's degree in mathematics/ statistics/ analytical field.
Experience working with data using SQL; adept in visualization tool(s) with experience in information visualisation and presentation.
Academic or working experience with programming principles. Practical experience with an analytical programming language such as R or Python for data manipulation is a plus.
Experience with project management in small scale and best practices implementation.
Demonstrated experience with some or all the following: data modelling, data visualization, statistics, product design cycles, experimental design

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.
Discover King at careers.king.com