Principal Data Analyst - Poker

Overview

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Principal Data Analyst – Zynga Poker is asked to help drive decisions that impact millions of players worldwide. As part of our analytics team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our game through data-driven insights.

• Collaborate with the Product team to enhance revenue, retention, and engagement metrics. This includes conducting A/B testing, performing insights analysis, and developing dashboards.
• Analyze player behavior to understand motivations and preferences, partnering with game design and consumer insights teams to translate findings into actionable experience improvements.
• Support the economy team in tuning the different features in the game to optimize for long term game and feature health.
• Play a leading role in the design and continuous improvement of our fraud and bad actor models.
• Design and maintain ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources, ensuring source of truth for analyses and business intelligence.
• Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data to improve the game experience.
• Actively play and engage with our games to maintain first-hand understanding of player experience, game mechanics, and potential pain points.
• Monitor and maintain the integrity of tools and models used to streamline workflows and personalize the player experience, in collaboration with other data analysts and scientists on the team.
• Participate in the Analytics Org’s AI initiative, which aims to significantly increase each analyst’s impact through the power of LLMs.
• Continuously learn about analytics best practices, and actively share and promote these practices across various games and teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. Advanced degrees (Masters or PhD) are a plus.
• Minimum of 8 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably with 6 years in a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team.
• Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and analyses and dealing with ambiguous data.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience in data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
• Familiarity with BI tools like Tableau and version control systems such as Git is advantageous.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated with a keen interest in problem-solving.
• Willingness to take ownership of challenges.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience in automating recurring analytics workflows is a plus.

• Experience/Interest in improving analytics team processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
• Familiarity with poker gameplay and terminology.
• Familiarity with social casino economies.

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits,…