Principal Data Analyst

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Position Overview :

Zyngas data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games.

Heres where you would come in: as a Principal Analyst you will be a strategic thought leader and technical expert within the analytics organization setting the bar for analytical excellence pioneering new methodologies and shaping the long-term data strategy across one or more studios. You will identify and formalize the most complex ambiguous problems to understand user behavior at scale. Youll create systems frameworks and analyses that fundamentally change how studios think about their players and their business.

We will rely on you to influence organizational direction through compelling narratives delivered to both technical peers and executive stakeholders. Your solutions to the problems will need to be demonstrably impactful scalable and adopted broadly. You will partner with senior leadership to inform portfolio-level decisions mentor and elevate fellow analysts and drive a culture of data-informed decision-making across Zynga.

What Youll Do :

• Define and shape the analytics strategy for one or more games aligning analytical investment with long-term business objectives
• Independently identify high-impact ambiguous problems and drive them from conception to measurable business outcomes influencing roadmaps and investment decisions at the studio or org level
• Implement novel analytical methodologies (statistical modelling ML causal inference etc.) and advocate for their adoption across the broader analytics organization
• Own architecture-level decisions on modelling approaches data infrastructure or measurement frameworks that other teams and analysts will build on
• Deliver analytics and data science projects that substantially move core game metrics setting the standard for rigor creativity and business impact
• Influence senior and executive leadership through data-driven storytelling shifting organizational strategy in line with new findings and insights
• Mentor and develop senior and junior analysts elevating the craft and building analytical capabilities across the team
• Drive and empower game studios to make quantitatively informed evidence-based decisions through scalable source-of-truth data platforms frameworks and dashboards
• Lead the design testing verification and implementation of machine learning models and product features within Zyngas games that impact millions of users
• Champion best practices in experimentation data governance and analytical reproducibility org-wide

What You Bring :

• BS in Computer Science Math Statistics Economics or other quantitative field; Masters MBA or PhD strongly preferred
• 8 years of work experience in data science or analytics roles with progressive increases in scope and impact
• Fluent in SQL; strong programming skills in Python; adept in atleast one visualization tools such as Tableau Looker or equivalent
• Deep expertise in statistics experimental design causal inference machine learning and/or deep learning with a track record of production-scale deployment
• Extensive experience analyzing large datasets
• Proven track record of leading complex ambiguous cross-functional initiatives from problem framing through production impact with minimal direction
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive org-wide strategic change through data
• Experience mentoring and growing other data scientists and analysts
• Proven ability to define analytics strategy or build analytics capabilities from the ground up
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills able to translate complex analysis into clear actionable narratives for executive audiences
• Ability to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous complex problem spaces with minimal direction
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines engineering product design marketing and studio leadership to deliver unambiguous business impact
• Strong passion for gaming!

Bonus Points :

Experience in gaming mobile or consumer tech industries.

What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit the Zynga Benefits

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