Principal Data Analyst - Poker

Zynga

36d

About The Position

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

Here's how you'll shape the player experience:

Product Strategy: Analyze long and short-term trends to deliver insights that influence product direction
Experimentation: Design statistically sound experiments that drive measurable impact
Business Intelligence: Maintain comprehensive dashboards and ETL pipelines to keep the organization informed on game performance
Game Integrity: Enhance fraud detection and bad actor models to maintain a healthy gaming ecosystem
Join us if you love solving analytical puzzles that impact millions!

Requirements

• 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 Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau and version control systems such as Git is advantageous.
• Strong ability in both written and oral communication.
• 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.
• Strong communication skills - you can explain complex data in simple, actionable terms
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience in automating recurring analytics workflows is a plus

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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 a wide range 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 and contribute to 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.

Benefits

• Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams.
• To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site
• The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $133,900 and $187,500 per Year.
• The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $114,300 and $160,000 per Year.
• However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees