Games Data Analyst - BigBox VR - Meta

Summary:

We are BigBox VR the makers of Population: One, the most popular Battle Royale game in VR. You are a talented Data Analyst who is passionate about games and understanding players. You excel at asking the right questions to solve complicated business problems with no clear right answer. You dive into metrics to help find issues that would be difficult to locate without BI. You can implement novel ways of AB testing features so we can tell what the impact of a feature is. You can connect user reports with live data to validate player experiences. Collaboration, iteration, and problem solving are key for your day to day. You work directly with the game team to reveal performance of the game and opportunities to positively impact the business. The ideal candidate is proactive, taking the initiative to investigate product health and player behavior, gather data, and make recommendations to stakeholders independently and often.

Required Skills:

Games Data Analyst - BigBox VR Responsibilities:

1. Become an expert on the player experience and the relationships between in-game systems, features, and engagement metrics

2. Discover insights by analyzing data and player experiences, leading to moving the needle on metrics that drive business goals

3. Instrumenting products to collect the data needed to answer anticipated questions in the future

4. Collaborate with legal to document, verify, and protect user data from improper usage

5. Collaborate with the team to define metrics, evaluate if the player experience is in line with the product goals and KPIs, and make projections of expected future trends

6. Create visualizations and dashboards to present findings to a wide variety of stakeholders

7. Evaluate and recommend new tools and implementations for data recording, analysis, and visualization

8. Provide relevant context to inform/influence group decision-making, understand the impact of recurring releases, compare changes to historical trends, and recommend improvements to move key metrics

9. Mentor and share best practices with other Analysts in the studio and at Meta

10. Establish standards around data formatting and requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

11. 5+ years experience in quantitative analysis, presentation, and driving business direction using data

12. 5+ years experience with live service products, free to play games, or social products

13. 5+ years experience in SQL and ETL

14. 5+ years experience in data manipulation/visualization tools (e.g. Python, R, Spyder, Jupyter notebook)

15. Proven track record of effectively working with business leaders to translate ambiguous questions into actionable data to drive product direction

16. Experience initiating and driving multiple projects to completion

17. Experience quickly iterating with the team to find and share performance results

18. Experience with statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis)

19. Experience with Root Cause analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

20. Experience with machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, prediction, etc)

21. Experience with econometric concepts and methods (IV, synthetic controls, etc)

22. Experience with popular first-person shooter and battle royale games

23. Experience with monitoring analytics for games, particularly VR titles

Public Compensation:

$124,000/year to $176,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

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