Senior Data Analyst

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We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to drive strategic analysis focused on identification evaluation and execution of opportunities to drive growth and operational excellence for Blizzard games success in China.

• Construct the vision for product-wide analysis to find compelling and actionable business insights. Address high level strategic questions through a holistic planning including. clarifying on the question developing hypotheses building analytic structure to address the hypotheses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product marketing developers and external partners to deliver impactful insights.
• Scope and perform analyses provide detailed analytical reports develop KPIs and produce self-service dashboards from a massive raw dataset to drive business decisions.
• Effectively present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
• Analyze player behavior across different game titles cohorts and lifecycle stages and translate insights into clear business recommendations
• Support product and game ops teams with deep-dive analyses on features events economy balance and live tuning decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Game Ops Marketing and Commercial teams as a trusted analytics advisor.
• Build and maintain analytical models (e.g. cohort analysis funnel analysis LTV churn drivers).
• Identify data gaps and work with data engineering or platform teams to improve data quality and availability.
• Help define analytics best practices metrics definitions and data governance standards.
• Proactively identify opportunities to automate and scale recurring analyses.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure an issue and analyze alternative solutions.
• Curious internally motivated self-starter with ability to plan organize and establish priorities to manage multiple projects and achieve results.
• Have the ability to structure a concise clear presentation of findings based on large sets of complex data and effectively present this to any level in the organization with appropriate visualizations.
• Ability to manage analytical projects from requirement gathering to presentation and reporting.
• Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing.

• 5 years of work experience in data analysis preferably in Gaming Management Consulting eCommerce or Entertainment industry.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or related field.
• Experience communicating and advocating with analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision making
• Proficient in SQL; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau; R or Python knowledge is a plus
• Proven track record of influencing business or product decisions through data insights.
• Strong business acumen; able to frame analysis in the context of commercial and product impact.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.

Extra

• A long time gamer understand gamer behaviors and the gaming community.
• Experience supporting live service games (GaaS) or multi-title portfolios.
• Experience working with regional partners (especially China) and global stakeholders.