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Jagex over 2 years ago
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Senior Game Analyst

REMOTE

PUBLISHING ANALYTICS & DATA SCIENCE

FULL TIME

Company Overview:

A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.

Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.

Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.

Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.

Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.

Job Purpose:

Analytics, Data Science and Engineering (ADSE) is the heart of player, product, and business insights on our titles. The Senior Game Analyst, focusing on performance marketing and optimization, is one of the most critical roles in ADSE. It acts as a centre of acquisition and player growth insights for our Studio. The person in this role is most successful when they can merge analytical skill with performance marketing and game industry knowledge to drive player growth.

This Senior Game Analyst role will deliver insights learnings and guidance to third party studios and business development staff. They will have a significant impact on the direction of games, third party development teams and new publishing opportunities.

Key Duties Include:

    • Grow relationships across both the Jagex studio and third party organisations to promote a data-driven partnership
    • Add valuable actionable insights to aid in the development of third party games
    • Create KPI dashboards to monitor the health of third party titles for both internal and third party use
    • Responsible for tracking, reporting, and analyzing the performance of third party games, ad-hoc analytic requests, and development/automation of regular reports.
    • Analyze A/B and multi-variate tests, communicate results and provide recommendations
    • Query and analyze big data to uncover high-value insights with direct impact to improve game and player experience
    • Partner closely with game development and engineering teams in designing telemetry events to better understand product quality
    • Guide decisions on product and feature roadmaps using a variety of data sources and analyses
    • Brainstorm with development and business teams to direct ambiguous questions or misleading metrics into impactful analysis plans
    • Drive deep, impactful learnings by working with large datasets and combining that with game design experience and research to deliver a story-driven direction based in data
    • Present analytical conclusions to business stakeholders clearly and practically
    • Partner with data engineering to manage data requirements such as schema requirements and data format to support high-quality deliverables
    • Conduct useful analysis while adhering to version control, documentation, and reproducibility practices

Qualifications:

    • Extensive knowledge of SQL, Python or R, Statistical Modeling & Data Cleansing Techniques.
    • Extensive knowledge of quantitative techniques and tools.
    • Crafting a clear message for your audience using complex ideas and insights in a simple to understand manner.
    • Base understanding of project management, research, and scientific testing.
    • Strong domain knowledge in assessing digital products, working in a game analytics environment in core statistical modelling and toolsets.

Company Benefits:

 Flexible Working

– Bonus Scheme

– Private Health Care

– Gym Membership

– Generous Pension Contributions

– Life Insurance

– Free Cycle Repair

– Income Protection

– Dental Plan

– Free Fruit and Drinks

– Subsidised Canteen

Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!