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Data Scientist - Player Support in Barcelona

King

Workplace
Onsite
Hours
Full-Time
Internship
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Job Description

We are looking for a talented and creative Data Scientist passionate about pushing the boundaries of games analytics within the Player Support team located in our Barcelona office.

Your Role Within our Kingdom

You will be working with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment. You’ll help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players and be part of a community of 100+ business intelligence & analytics guides. You will play a key role in the Technology team within the Player Support department, participating in innovative projects with the goal of providing the best support experience to our players. Specifically, you’ll:
  • Dedicatedly develop new analyses, experiments and data-driven tools to better understand our players’ behaviour and the performance of our support channels/tools
  • Provide on-going reporting and performance monitoring from multiple data sources
  • Develop an analysis strategy and perform analysis of complex scenarios, both systematically and on a one-off basis
  • Carefully check, debug, and problem tackle issues to ensure you deliver accurate and clear analysis and reports, even when confronted by subtle data complications
  • Translate business needs to technical requirements and implementation
  • Play a key role in the technology driven Player Support department at King

    Skills To Create Thrills

    There is plenty of scope at King for you to learn from your colleagues in the areas where you have less experience, and to share your own skills where you are stronger. Specific factors that are helpful to excel in this role include:
  • Business Insight: The ability to understand the problems and issues our games and business wants to tackle, 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 they are clear and unambiguous
  • SQL: The ability to write complex 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
  • Stats: Understanding the basics of appropriate statistical or machine learning techniques.

    Bonus Points

    Other experience that might be helpful, but is not required, includes:
  • Work in the games industry, customer service or similarly customer-facing digital businesses
  • Familiarity with massive data sets and tools to deal with them (Hadoop/Hive/Impala etc)
  • Experience in behavioural psychology/economics and experimental design
  • Experience in predictive analytics, segmentation, and related areas
  • Software engineering skills in Java and other languages (beyond R and Python which we use most frequently)
  • Skills with standard reporting tools such as QlikView/Tableau/etc.

    A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

    Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

    Want to join our Kingdom?

    Application needs to be in English. Apply now!

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    About King

    • Games

    • Privately Held

    •  London, United Kingdom

    • 1001-5000 employees

    • 2003

    King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games.

    We have developed more than 200 fun titles, and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. Our franchises include Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 340 million average monthly unique users, as of second quarter 2015, across web, social and mobile platforms. 

    At King, we design games with a broad appeal, which allow people to play for a moment, then move on with their day and pick up their game later. Our games are also synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off, so they can play anywhere, any time and on any device. For us, this is encapsulated in the idea of bitesized entertainment. 



    King has game studios in Stockholm, Bucharest, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Singapore, and Seattle, along with offices in San Francisco, Malta, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai.


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