Senior Product Analyst - Game Economy | Candy Crush

Key Skills

A/B Testing, Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Game Analytics, Game Engine, Game Engineering, Game theory, Python Programming, R Programming, SQL

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and creative Product Analyst interested in pushing our understanding and the performance of our game economy as a part of the Candy Crush Saga In- App Purchase & Economy area. You will get the opportunity to be part of a great team, working with an industry leading and genre defining game with over 200 million active players. 

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Product Analyst focusing on our game economy, you will partner with designers, product managers and data scientists among others, improving the health and performance of the game economy in Candy Crush. You will be working with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast- paced environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Perform quantitative & qualitative analyses that provide insights into our players’s behavior and support the development of the game economy in Candy Crush
• Identify product improvement opportunities, define experiment designs and perform AB- tests to validate hypotheses 
• Develop frameworks, KPIs and models for how to assess game economy health and performance
• Communicate results of your analysis in a clear and concise manner, with an understanding of data visualization and the importance of drawing accurate conclusions from multiple data sources
• Define best practices and smart processes for reporting on our progress to the rest of the immediate team and fellow Candy Crushers

Skills to create thrills

You are a passionate problem solver and have the ability to draw data driven insights that will add real value to King. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating effectively with teams and individuals across King.

Who you are 

• You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment 
• Effective communicator with a proven ability to get analytical insights across to teams and individuals
• You are an analytical and passionate problem solver with previous experience of big data decision making
• Robust understanding of free to play economies, how they are balanced and the key drivers for an engaging game economy 
• You have good knowledge of theoretical concepts from behavioral economics and pricing theory and can apply them in a practical setting
• You are confident in SQL and data extraction and likely know Python, R or similar 
• You have an interest in product and games development