Analyste de données en chef / Lead Data Analyst

Zeni Max Media, Inc.; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to oversee data analytics for their popular titles. This role combines team leadership and data analysis to drive game performance, requiring strong SQL skills and experience in management. Join a team committed to diversity and innovation in the gaming industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a data analyst.
• Management experience leading a small team.
• Strong to advanced SQL knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of data analysts for game performance.
• Establish data analytics workflow and guidelines.
• Provide actionable insights for game development.

Skills

Data Visualization

Critical Thinking

SQL

Communication

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Job description

Overview

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Come joinBethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behindStarfield,The Elder ScrollsandFallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Lead Data Analyst, you will…

• Lead a small team of data analysts focused on engagement, performance, and stability for a portfolio of Bethesda’s games (usually 2-3 related titles)
• Partner with design, production, and business counterparts to elicit and document data needs, gather requirements, and translate them into product specifications and development priorities.
• Establish guidelines and documentation for the data analytics workflow; act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on the use of analytics to support product vision and goals.
• Mentor team members on analytics and communication best practices; conduct feedback and reviews to ensure their growth and smooth integration of new team members.
• Identify trends in game and business data to advise development team and senior leadership on product strategy and opportunities based on technical expertise, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and forecasting.
• Provide actionable insights and analysis to our development and business teams to facilitate the full cycle of game development
• Act as a subject matter expert and resource for best practices in accessing and analyzing data using available reporting methods
• Own the roadmap for data analytics products supporting the product strategy for assigned portfolio of titles. Assist with task assignment towards that goal, when necessary.
• Work with data and gameplay programmers to design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable data products, ensuring that they meet high standards of performance, usability, and accuracy

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You have 5 or more years of experience in a data analyst role.
• You have 3 or more years of experience in a lead or manager role
• You possess management skills, including the capacity to provide feedback to and help direct a team of data analysts as well as manage programs for data collection.
• You have applied knowledge of current data analysis visualization techniques, including practical experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Looker)
• You have strong critical thinking skills with knowledge and experience in analytic techniques and statistics
• You have strong to advanced SQL knowledge, including familiarity with statistical, aggregate, and windowing functions
• You are able to gather requirements and define business needs for data collection and analysis, especially within the game development field
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.

You will receive an automated email confirming we have received your resume.

Due to the high volume of applications received, it's not possible for us to respond directly to each candidate.

Don't see your desired position listed? Apply under "General Application" instead!

If you are selected, you will be contacted by our team for an initial phone screen to chat about your previous experience.

You may go through one or two phone interviews, and possibly a follow-up Skype call.

If your qualifications do not match the criteria of a current position, your resume will be kept on file.

Site Visit

The next step will be an invitation to come out and meet the team at the studio for onsite interviews.

In the event that we choose not to move forward at any point in the recruiting process, we will let you know.

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