Data Scientist (All Levels) | Candy Crush Soda / Candy Crush Saga

Key Skills

A/B Testing, Analytical Techniques, Dash framework, plotly, Python Programming, SQL, Streamlit

Job Description

Candy Crush Soda and Candy Crush Saga are searching for dedicated and creative Mid- lvl, Senior and Principal Data Scientist!

We are looking for someone with strong interest in building, defining and pushing the boundaries of game analytics and automation. You will be working closely with the different Game Areas of Soda as well as on stand- alone analytical projects where you’ll be able to prove your analytical and technical skills as well as your business knowledge! Other areas of interest are Data Engineering skills and Machine Learning.

These opportunities are available in London, Stockholm, Barcelona, Berlin or Malmö.

Your role within our Kingdom

Mid- lvl and Senior Data Scientist

You will be working with a diverse set of team members in a lively, dynamic and fast- paced environment. You’ll help us further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players and join a community of 100+ business intelligence & analytics guides. You will be be part of a cross- functional team of other data scientists, product managers, game designers and developers. You will play a key role in ensuring the best performance of our products with the goal of providing the best experience to our players.

Specifically you will:

• Act as the main point of contact for data interpretation and analytics and proactively identify areas for improvement and develop concrete analyses
• Own and maintain a portfolio of analytical tools for the Analytics team and provide in- depth knowledge of player trends and track performance of different King titles
• Design, monitor, and analyze results for AB tests and translate business needs into technical and AB test requirements
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure accurate implementation and event tracking
• Create, deploy, and maintain Machine Learning & AI models
• Automate various game systems to enhance efficiency
• Develop new analyses, experiments, and data- driven models & tools for business opportunities
• Resolve data complications and ensure accurate game operations and promote data literacy within the game team and share knowledge with the Data Science community

Skills to build 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 advantageous to excel in this role include:

• Analytical approach: You are a data driven storyteller who thrives in speed of delivery, domain knowledge and wide understanding of available tech and data.
• Business Insight: You have the ability to identify the real problem and issues our teams want to take on. You know how to define the right data, critical metrics, analyses or interpretations leading to the right recommendations.
• Communication: You’re comfortable crafting good ways of communicating, visualizing or reporting your results/analyses, so they are clear and unambiguous to technical and non- technical team members.
• Technical skills: You can extract, manipulate and visualize data and you have a good understanding of applied statistics (probability and confidence theory). You are comfortable with SQL, familiar with Python/R and you know how to use visualization tools like Looker for reporting/monitoring needs.

Principal Data Scientist

Along with the above mentioned scope, a Principal Data Scientist would have an added responsibility to;

• Provide a business analytical perspective to discussions and help to drive the priorities within your area
• Be self- motivated to learn and support the technical development of the team as a mentor, and help evolve the methodology and tools available to King’s data science community.
• Communicate, visualise and report your findings in a clear and unambiguous way to people with diverse degrees of numerical proficiency.
• Ensure that the data required to understand how our players interact with the game is available and reliable.
• Be able to systematically break complex and abstract problems into solvable questions.
• Identify the challenges our games and business wants to solve, and define the most appropriate data, analysis or interpretation to lead to the right recommendations and decisions
• Collaborate with various Stakeholders and have an ability to recognize dependencies, form relationships and influence others

The Team

Candy Crush Soda

Candy Crush Soda Saga is King’s second largest game, enjoyed by millions of players around the globe. Since 2014 players have matched colorful bubbly soda, Swedish fish, gummy bears and soda bottles in combinations of three or more to win points, defeat obstacles and progress through more than 11,000 levels. Candy Crush Soda Saga is available to download for free from the Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon App store, Windows App Store and Facebook.