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Job Description:

We are looking for a Data scientist who will contribute to the discovery and experimentation cycles by understanding, modelling, predicting and segmenting the behavior of our players. The goal is to drive product innovation and enhance our product's competitive edge in the market by learning how to better engage and retain our players. At Candy Crush Soda, you will collaborate closely with game designers, developers, product analysts, and operators, and forge a strategic partnership with product managers.

Key Responsibilities 

Data analysis and opportunity discovery

• Lead problem discovery alongside the product manager, conducting exploratory analysis to uncover player problems and needs that are in line with the opportunities being explored by the product team.

• Model desired player behaviour, with focus on segmentation of users.

• Conduct thorough data analysis using statistical methods to identify trends, patterns, and insights related to product performance and user behaviour.

• Identify gaps and opportunities within the product and subsequently propose data-informed product changes or enhancements.

• Develop new analyses, experiments and data-driven tools to harness business opportunities and share them with King’s data science community. 

Experimentation

• Work closely with game designers and the product team to scope and design tests, translating business needs to technical and AB test requirements (including correct implementation and event tracking).

• Design, implement, and analyse A/B tests to evaluate the impact of changes to the product, features, or user experience, making recommendations based on test outcomes.

• Monitor the performance of experiments and provide insights to optimise product features.

Documentation and knowledge sharing

• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders across Soda.

• Document analytical processes, findings, and recommendations, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible within the team and Soda.

• Champion data literacy within the cross-functional game team.

Desired requirements

• Hands-on experience with data science in a product context.

• Demonstrable ability to extract, manipulate, and interpret large datasets, identifying trends, and making data-driven recommendations. This includes understanding key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to product success.

• Experience working with data using SQL and creating sophisticated queries.

• Practical experience with an analytical programming language such as R or Python for data manipulation.

• Strong understanding of statistical techniques such as hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and Bayesian data analysis.

• Adept in visualisation tools with experience in information visualisation and presentation.

• Ability to clearly articulate insights and recommendations to stakeholders, including those without a technical background. This includes excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with cloud-based big data solutions such as Redshift, BigQuery.

Bonus skills

• Previous game industry experience

• Previous experience working with Looker

• Experience in behavioural psychology/economics/game theory and experimental design

• Advanced machine learning

• Knowledge of user research and design thinking principles

• Experience with roadmap planning, understanding how data analysis informs the prioritisation of new features or enhancements to existing ones

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.