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Junior Data Scientist

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Deadline
3 Oct 2019 21:59

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We are looking for a talented, creative and driven Junior Data Scientist to join our London Studio. You will ideally be interested in pushing the boundaries of games analytics. You will have a proven ability to apply your skills, be it technical, behavioural or economic, to generate value for the Studio's new generation of awesome mobile games.

Your role within our Kingdom

You will work with a variety of stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players and be part of a community of 100+ Business Intelligence & Analytics experts.

More specifically, you will:

  • Proactively develop new analytics, experiments and data-driven tools to better understand our players' behaviour and the performance of our games
  • Provide insights to support decision making for the portfolio of games in the Studio
  • Translate business needs to technical requirements and AB tests, and work with development teams to ensure correct implementation, taking care to correctly track the right information to allow easy, accurate analysis of the impact
  • Work closely with other Data Scientists across the business to leverage insights from one game across multiple other games
  • Carefully check, debug and troubleshoot issues to ensure you deliver accurate and clear analysis, reports and tools, even when confronted by subtle data complications

Skills to create thrills

There is plenty of scope for you to learn from your colleagues and on the job in the areas where you have less experience, and to share your own skills as well.

Specific skills that are desirable and will help you excel in this role are:

  • Business Insight: the ability to understand the problems and issues our games and business want to solve, and then defining the right data, analysis or interpretation to lead to the right recommendations and decisions
  • Communication: designing good ways of communicating, visualising or reporting your results/analysis so that they are clear and unambiguous
  • SQL: the ability to write SQL queries to analyse our databases with 300+ million players and work with relational database systems
  • Analytical coding: using tools such as R, Python or Excel for analytical purposes
  • Statistics: understanding the basics of appropriate statistical or machine learning techniques

Other Experience that may be helpful, but is not required, includes:

  • Work experience within the games industry, or similar
  • Familiarity with large datasets and tools to deal with them (BigQuery / AWS / Hadoop, etc.)
  • Software Engineering skills in Java, or other related languages
  • Skills with reporting tools such as Looker / QlikView / Tableau, etc.

A great saga needs all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. And that’s it.

We’re Seriously Playful

Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.

King is a leading interactive entertainment company in the mobile world. We create unforgettable games that are played around the world every single day, like Candy Crush, our sweet phenomenon. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), which acquired King in February 2016.

Entertainment
London
600 employees