Data Analyst 2
Data Analyst 2
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a whollyowned subsidiary of TakeTwo Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile including Star Wars: Hunters CSR Racing Dragon City Empires & Puzzles FarmVille Golf Rival Hair Challenge Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells High Heels! Merge Dragons! Merge Magic! Monster Legends Toon Blast Top Eleven Toy Blast Two Dots Words With Friends and Zynga Poker.Founded in 2007 Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America Europe and Asia. For more information visit www.zynga or follow Zynga on Twitter Instagram Facebook or the Zynga blog
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: identify and formalize problems to understand user behavior. Create systems and analyses to derive insights that change the studios world view. Be innovative be creative use every bit of that key commodity data. Millions of people play Zynga games every day so our data is tremendously rich and we have a lot of it!
We will rely on you to communicate your findings to your peers both technical and nontechnical. Your solutions to difficult problems will need to be demonstrably impactful visual and maintainable. You will work with our game teams to put your models into production. You will collaborate with Product Managers Game Designers and Engineers to deliver business impact changing current practices in line with new findings and insights.
What Youll Do:
Work with large amounts of data to find opportunities to improve the experience that Zynga provides to its players
Deliver analytics and data science projects that are aligned with the roadmap and product goals balancing actionable insights to substantially improve core game metrics
Drive and empower game studio to make quantitatively informed evidence based decisions through maintaining source of truth data sources and dashboards
Work closely with game team to design test verify and implement machine learning models and product features with Zyngas games that impact millions of users.
What You Bring:
BS in Computer Science Math Statistics Economics or other quantitative field; Masters MBA or PhD preferred
3 years of work experience in data science or analytics roles
Fluent in SQL; Solid experience with programming in Python; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau or QlikView
Demonstrable experience with some or all of the following: statistics experimental design machine learning deep learning
Experience in analyzing large datasets preferably in a Hadoop or Spark environment and deploying production ready systems at scale
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to work effectively in a fastpaced environment with changing priorities
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers product managers analysts and marketing to deliver unambiguous business impact
Strong passion for gaming!
What We Offer You
Zynga offers a worldclass benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit theZynga Benefits
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts cultures and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability objective qualifications and work ethic not an individuals race creed color religion sex or gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin or ancestry alienage or citizenship status physical or mental disability pregnancy age genetic information veteran status marital status status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses reproductive health decision or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities health conditions or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over thirdparty messaging apps such as Telegram WhatsApp or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack and you should not engage. Zyngas inhouse recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e. via a zynga naturalmotion smallgiantgames themavens gram.gs email domain).
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
