Data Scientist Marketing & Product

Scopely is a global gaming company whose mission is to inspire play every day. Niantic (a division of Scopely) inspires people to explore the world together through products that promote exercise exploration and real-world social interaction.

Were seeking a strategic impact-driven Staff Data Scientist to partner with Marketing and Product. You will lead scalable measurement frameworks predictive models and AI-powered analytics to shape user acquisition engagement monetization and long-term player value.

As a senior IC youll define data strategy across marketing and product analytics elevate experimentation and causal inference and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate insights and decision-making. Youll collaborate with Marketing Product Engineering Finance and Executive Leadership to drive measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Marketing & Product Analytics

• Design scalable measurement frameworks across acquisition retention monetization and lifecycle marketing.
• Build and productionize advanced models (LTV churn propensity incrementality MMM) to inform investment and roadmap decisions.
• Partner with Marketing and Finance to optimize budget allocation and ROI.

Experimentation & Causal Inference

• Raise experimentation standards (A/B testing quasi-experimental methods incrementality).
• Translate privacy-constrained attribution environments (e.g. SKAdNetwork aggregated reporting) into actionable insights.

Data Engineering & Infrastructure

• Architect and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for marketing and product data (e.g. Airflow Composer).
• Design optimized data models and warehouse schemas for high-performance analytics.
• Build reusable data assets feature stores and modular analytics frameworks.

AI-Driven Analytics

• Apply modern AI/ML tools (LLMs coding assistants automated workflows) to accelerate modeling and analysis.
• Integrate AI into analytics workflows to improve speed quality and reproducibility.
• Promote technical excellence and responsible AI adoption.

Qualifications

• 7 years in data science supporting Marketing Growth UA or Product Analytics (gaming/mobile preferred).
• Proven experience building production-grade predictive models (LTV churn propensity MMM) that drive impact.
• Strong expertise in experimentation causal inference and marketing measurement.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills including scalable ETL and production workflows.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Looker) and enabling self-serve analytics.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive executive-level adoption.

Plus If

• End-to-end delivery experience (telemetry QA ETL modeling deployment dashboards).
• Experience with large-scale datasets.
• Familiarity with BigQuery Composer and Airflow.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Niantic games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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