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Data Scientist Gaming

Boca Raton, FL Studio Operations 90000 - 130000 In Office

Join this fast growing game development company in Boca Raton, Florida as a Data Scientist. Their games are played in over 40 countries and consistently rank in the top 10 in some of the biggest markets due, in part, to their commitment to building data-driven game features. This company has 4 game development studios in North America and over 150 employees.

Purpose

They are seeking an experienced data scientist to deliver insights from mobile casino game and audience data. The ideal team member will have mathematical, AI and statistical expertise to mine, interpret, and clean game and audience data with responsibility to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover opportunities that lie hidden within the data. 

Roles and Expectations

  • Lead data-driven and evidence-based research to support the delivery of game metrics, KPIs, reporting
  • Creation of Dashboards that will be used to drive business decisions.
  • Communicate findings to all stakeholders
  • Enable smarter business processes—and implement analytics for meaningful insights
  • Keep current with technical and industry developments
  • Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with internal team leads (Game Designers, Management and Game Intelligence leads)
  • Further incorporate data-driven decision-making in operations and Game Design.
  • Establish KPIs and Dashboard to measure the effectiveness of business decisions
  • Nice to Have: Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis
  • Nice to Have: Advanced and predictive analytics

Required Qualifications

  • Proven success  and ownership of analytics work end to end, including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support
  • Hands-on responsibility for defining and owning KPIs, not just visualizing existing metrics
  • Experience building and maintaining dashboards (Tableau or Power BI) that were actively used to drive business or product decisions
  • Regular use of SQL to work with production or large datasets
  • Experience delivering ongoing or recurring reporting, not only one-off or exploratory analyses
  • Direct involvement in experimentation or A/B testing, including hypothesis definition, measurement, and interpretation
  • Experience translating analysis into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
  • Work experience in a business or product environment, not purely academic or research settings
  • Ownership of analytics work end to end, including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support
  • Proficient with data management, visualization, and modeling tools
  •  Bachelor’s or Master's degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline

Preferred Skills

  • User segmentation
  • Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
  • Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modeling experience
  • Experience with machine learning and AI
    • Tensor Flow, Azure Machine Learning Studio or similar tools

Benefits:

  • All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
  • Zero deductible health care coverage
  • 30 days sick time
  • 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays
  • 4% 401k match
  • Up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance

Location:

  • This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL
  • It is in-office 5 days per week
  • Relocation expenses are paid

Applicants should expect to complete an Assessment Evaluation as part of the interview process.

About the company:

Join a team that values people and loves gaming.  No TPS reports, guaranteed!

This three studio software engineering company is quickly becoming known as a leading creative developer of online mobile casino games.  With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is embracing leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences.  Their customers are shifting work from other studios to them as their games are achieving faster market penetration, higher user satisfaction and superior quality.  They recruit for attitude and aptitude.  They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their small distributed studio approach to growth.  You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development. 
 

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