Job Title:
Associate Principal Data Scientist
Requisition ID:
R025545
Job Description:
Your Role Within Our Kingdom
We are seeking an Associate Principal Data Scientista highly experienced and technically deep individual contributor who leads through influence owns high-impact initiatives and drives scientific excellence across experimentation and modeling.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and execution of large-scale data science initiatives shaping the roadmap for experimentation and modeling across teams.
- Apply advanced statistical optimization and machine learning techniques (e.g. time-series regression/classification recommendation engines reinforcement learning and genAI) to drive system understanding and develop data-powered solutions across the organization.
- Own design and evaluation of experimentation for optimization systems.
- Provide technical direction mentor senior data scientists and set high standards for scientific rigor communication and reproducibility.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product Engineering and Game Studios to frame ambiguous problems scope solutions and influence strategy.
- Champion innovation by evaluating new methodologies and tools and by raising the bar for scalable interpretable and actionable data science.
Skills to Create Thrills
Minimum Qualifications:
- Masters degree or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Economics Engineering Operations Research).
- 14 years of industry experience (or equivalent post-graduate experience) in data science experimentation statistical modeling and machine learning including work with large-scale systems.
- Proficient in Python and SQL; familiarity with big data tools (e.g. Spark Hive) and cloud computing platforms (e.g. GCP AWS).
- Strong systems thinkingable to zoom out and define strategy while also diving deep into code and analysis.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with demonstrated experience partnering across Product Engineering and Business teams.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring influencing and elevating the technical bar across a data science organization.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with advertising data products or monetization systems.
- Prior work with mobile gaming studios or player behavior modeling.
- Experience in developing or maintaining experimentation platforms.
- Familiarity with modern data orchestration and versioning (e.g. Airflow dbt MLflow).
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications Let us decide! Research shows that women veterans and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age marital status veteran status or disability status among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical dental vision health savings account or health reimbursement account healthcare spending accounts dependent care spending accounts life and AD&D insurance disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time floating holidays compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability legal service ID protection rental insurance and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $143060.00 - $264846.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.
Required Experience:
Staff IC