Senior Director of Data Science & Insights
Senior Director of Data Science & Insights
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Who We Are
Founded in 2005 2K Games is a global video game company publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios are responsible for developing 2Ks portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms including Visual Concepts Gearbox Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber and HB Studios. 2K publishes titles in todays most popular gaming genres including sports shooters action role-playing strategy casual and family entertainment.
The Core Games team of engineers marketers artists writers data scientists producers thinkers and doers is the publishing steward of our growing library of critically-acclaimed Core franchises such as Borderlands Sid Meiers Civilization BioShock Mafia XCOM and other unannounced titles and franchises.
At 2K we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment and encourage our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
What We Need
The Senior Director of Data Science is a key leader within the Core Business Unit responsible for shaping and scaling the analytics strategy that drives product marketing and commercial decision-making across 2Ks core franchises.
You will develop and lead a globally distributed team of data scientists and analysts based in the U.S. and Dublin Ireland. Together youll unlock insights from complex large-scale player and business data to shape target audience definitions game design inform live service strategy and optimize engagement retention and monetization across our AAA portfolio. Your remit spans the full lifecycle of player and commercial performanceguiding predictive modeling experimentation player segmentation lifecycle marketing and in-market analytics. Partnering closely with Product Studio Marketing and Commercial leaders you will help build a unified data-informed view of player experience and business health that drives critical decisions and long-term franchise success.
The scope of this role is significant and critical to 2Ks success leading all aspects of analytical operations for Core including recurring analysis ad-hoc insights and experimentation functions. What Youll Do Lead Cores Data Strategy: You will champion and scale the Core Business Units analytics vision to empower data-driven decision-making across game development live services marketing and commercial functions.
Analytics Oversight & Strategy Influence:
Be the Data Expert: Leverage deep expertise in collecting integrating and analyzing diverse data inputs to uncover player opportunities and guide product designs that resonate with clearly defined target audience personasultimately enabling better strategic decisions across all facets of publishing.
Influence Strategy Through Insight: Collaborate with Product Studio Marketing and Commercial partners to ensure Cores analytics inform key decisions and long-term planning synthesizing objectives identifying and operating various data sources toolsets potential partner needs and delivering actionable analysis of insights.
Behavioural Insights Synthesis & Telemetry Optimization:
Drive Live Service & In-Game Player Behaviour Insights: Build systems and teams that surface player behavior economy and engagement insightsinforming design monetization and retention across live and in-development titles
Operationalize Experimentation & Machine Learning: Guide the implementation of experimentation platforms and machine learning use cases that drive game experience personalization feature optimization and content performance.
Shape Scalable Infrastructure & Telemetry: Partner with Studio and Central Data teams to ensure the Core BU has clean scalable data pipelines and instrumentation that support actionable in-game telemetry insights that will empower business decisions.
Audience Definition Enrichment:
Audience Definition & Personas: Partner with Marketing and Customer Insights in the development of data-driven audience definitions and actionable personas (informed by in-game player telemetry) that guide the full product lifecyclefrom product ideation to marketing execution.
Strategic Leadership:
Ensure Strategic Alignment & Delivery: Own analytics prioritization across Core managing team bandwidth execution quality and stakeholder needs in a dynamic development environment
Build & Lead a High-Performing Team: Hire develop and mentor a global team of data scientists and analysts specializing across the full 360 data analytics remit; foster a culture of innovation ownership and scalable execution
Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit
10 years of experience in data science or analytics with significant exposure to gaming entertainment or consumer techand a track record of turning data into strategic advantage
6 years leading high-performing analytics or data science teams including senior-level talent across multiple geographies and functions
Proven leadership in live service analytics including experimentation frameworks content and feature performance churn and retention modeling and player behavioral insights
Deep fluency in data systems including telemetry instrumentation event tracking data pipeline design and QAdelivered in collaboration with engineering and product partners
Strong command of player lifecycle metrics including segmentation LTV modeling economy balancing and engagement KPIs across a portfolio of titles
Advanced technical toolkit including proficiency in SQL and Python or R and experience with BI and experimentation tools such as Tableau Looker or similar
Executive presence and influence with the ability to communicate complex analytics to senior stakeholders and shape product marketing and commercial decisions at scale
Bonus Points
Deep understanding of free-to-play or multi-platform live service ecosystems including mobile PC and console dynamics
Experience leading centralized analytics or data science functions that support multiple games teams or business domains
Background in AI/ML applications for player modeling personalization or predictive insights in interactive experiences
Demonstrated ability to scale analytics across a complex portfolio with varied content strategies and business models
Passion for games and a player-first mindset that drives empathetic innovative decision-making Location: Dublin with ability to travel to the US 1-2x/quarter
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