Job Description

Your Mission

The Live Ops Analytics Team is looking for a data science expert. As a thought leader within the Live Ops Team, your mission is to put the science into decision making.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Being the trusted expert charged with evolving our Data Science roadmap for all product analytics teams
Develop novel analytics to qualitatively deduce and draw conclusions from player behavioral data that directly influences game design, play balance, retention of our live titles
Design and implement predictive models to make an impact on our future business decisions, product planning, and personalization
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data scientists with a wide range of backgrounds
Democratize and socialize learnings by contributing to a centralized repository that informs future game design, and is carried across titles and franchises
Evangelize data science outside the company to increase company visibility and recruit new talent

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

Advanced degree required with technical focus (Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, etc.)
10+ years total experience in analytics
Exceptional technical skills with SQL, R/ Python for data analysis and experience in ML driven products
Demonstrated programming skills either in data science or software development settings a plus
Expert at deriving narrative from data and communicate the results effectively
Expert in experimentation and causal inference methodologies
Comprehensive experience with predictive and prescriptive modeling
Deep product sense, with a solid understanding of user engagement and monetization strategies in gaming, entertainment/ecommerce service providers, or mobile apps a plus

Extra Points:

Consistently demonstrates ability to identify and meet the needs of others across the company
Guiding teams to be agile in response to change and to solve complex problems
Being active in the industry, recognized for application of science to games & entertainment
Delivering breakthrough analytical projects resulting in measurable engagement or revenue impact
Exemplifies multi-dimensional skill set – data science, experimentation, analysis, engineering, etc.
Being a renowned champion for best practices within the analytics, data and engineering teams
Provides context, not control, remaining highly aligned but loosely coupled.

Valid through: 1/26/2021

About Activision Blizzard

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham. The company originally concentrated on the creation of game ports for other studios' games before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994, the company became Chaos Studios, Inc., and eventually Blizzard Entertainment after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard released Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Since then, Blizzard Entertainment has created several Warcraft sequels, including highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft in 2004, as well as three other multi-million selling video game franchises: Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch. Their most recent projects include the expansion for Diablo III, Reaper of Souls, the online collectible card game Hearthstone, the multiplayer online battle arena Heroes of the Storm, the third and final expansion for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void, the multiplayer first-person hero shooter Overwatch, and the eighth expansion for World of Warcraft, Shadowlands.

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Average Pay:

$131,897

Total value of jobs:

$18,070,000

% Masters:

30%