Director, Gameplay Analytics

Sci Play is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

Sci Play currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Position Summary

About the Role

The Manager of Analytics will play a key role in the product and be responsible for a wide range of aspects. The Manager of Analytics will manage a high-quality analysts team that will work on a variety of large data sets and will use advanced analytics and statistical tools and techniques, combined with excellent critical, business, strategic, and problem-solving thinking, in order to provide top-notch analyses, insights, and recommendations to support the product growth, the decision making, the features, and AB Tests execution and to improve our player's experience consistently.

Essential Job Functions:

* Manage the Product Analysts team and deliver actionable and valuable conclusions and insights

* Responsible for recruiting, training, and managing the team and support the personal/professional growth of the team members, and push to foster a motivated, creative and exploratory environment

* Create a solid and productive work relationship with the different product and studio departments- product managers, monetization, game economy, VIP, data science, BI, etc.

* Plan and manage the AB Tests method, roadmap, and execution

* Establish, analyze, implement, execute and validate complex statistical models and segmentations to support and improve decision-making

* Consistently monitor the product KPIs to ensure its health and drive the product focus

* Manage data-driven meetings on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis with various stakeholders, including senior management

* Leverage multiple massive and complex data sets to identify patterns, trends, opportunities, and threats to the product

* Own and lead multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic and results-oriented environment

* Use advanced analytics, data mining, BI, and statistical tools, along with critical and strategic thinking to execute top-notch analyses to drive the product growth

* Initiate, design, and own reports, custom tools, and automation processes

* Collaborate with different departments in Sci Play:
Data Science, BI Development, Data Engineering, Finance, VIP, etc.

* Search constantly for new technologies, tools, and methods to leverage the analytics performance and capabilities

Qualifications

* 5+ years of practical analytics experience in big data environments, e-commerce, gaming, online or telecom industries

* 3+ years of proven experience as a team/group manager

* Passion for the gaming industry

* Experience in the gaming industry

* Strong sense of problem-solving, conflicts management, leadership, responsibility, and professionalism

* Strong SQL experience, along with a solid understanding and experience with big-data environments

* Excellent proficiency in Excel and BI tools;
Tableau
- Advantage

* Strong understanding of statistical significance, models, and tools;
An hands-on experience with Python/R
- Advantage

* Outstanding attention to details, analytical skills, and critical, business, strategic, and problem-solving thinking

* An exceptional approach to data and ability to take a business question, define the analysis method and deliver a high-level output and present it in a sharp and concise way

* Self-learner, multi-tasking, able to work independently, initiative, highly organized, "can-do" approach

* Fluent English - both written and verbal.

* BA in Industrial Engineering / Economics / Statistics or equivalent academic background

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