Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
1. Minimum 8 years’ experience with communication.
2. Minimum 8 years’ experience with stakeholder relationships.
3. Minimum 8 years’ experience with understanding of digital monitoring.""
Location: Onsite- Redmond WA
Years of Experience: 8+ Years
Summary:
We are looking for a Data Scientist with a drive to achieve high impact, high quality results for Minecraft. In this role, you will be responsible for driving insights that inform the Studio’s player support and experimentation strategies. You’ll partner with business and engineering teams to ensure robust reporting on business metrics and make recommendations to optimize product health, and collaborate on experiments to improve player experiences. You will develop and lead analysis that identify key drivers of acquisition, engagement, and monetization.
Job Responsibilities:
· Identify key learnings from analysis and synthesize them into recommendations for stakeholders.
· Manage partnerships with Product, Marketing, and other teams to integrate insights into product decisions.
· Be self-driven and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data.
· Work with the Engineering team to build and maintain reporting queries for monitoring business health.
· Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques.
Qualifications:
· 8+ years of experience in business analytics, with a focus on subscriptions.
· 8 +years of experience with SQL, bonus if familiar with SparkSQL, Databricks, or Azure Data Explorer.
· Proficient in a statistical programming language such as Python or PySpark.
· Able to work in a collaborative, diverse and fast-paced team.
· Excellent analytical, and problem-solving skills and autonomy when faced with solving data problems.
· Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills.
· Interest in games, bonus if experience in gaming industry.
· Local to Seattle area.""
Typical Day in the Role
· Purpose of the Team: This role will work with the Player and Data Insights team at Minecraft, driving ongoing reporting and insights for the Player Support team (NLP skills a plus). In addition, this role will work directly with an experimentation v-team to drive AB tests and score carding in web, game product, Minecraft Launcher, and other Mojang properties.
· Key projects: Player Support reporting, NLP interpretation, AB experimentation, score carding
· Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of interactions with stakeholders on the player support team, and various teams related to experimentation.""
Job Type: Contract
Pay: Up to $70.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
Application Question(s):
- 8+ years of experience in business analytics, with a focus on subscriptions.
- 8 +years of experience with SQL, bonus if familiar with SparkSQL, Databricks, or Azure Data Explorer
- Proficient in a statistical programming language such as Python or PySpark.
- Looking for only Green Card and US Citizens for this role. Please confirm your visa status
- We are looking for only US Citizens and Green Card holders for this role. Please confirm your visa status
Experience:
- Data Scientist: 8 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person