Data Analyst - Video Games

XQA; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking a Data Analyst to join its team, working remotely in Canada. The role involves using data analysis to understand player behaviors, support business decisions, and create dashboards for initiatives. Candidates should have a BS in analytics, 2+ years of relevant experience, and strong skills in SQL and statistical analysis.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a data or financial analyst applying statistical analysis to B2C consumer behaviors.
• Experience using SQL, including complex queries from multiple data sources.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including extensive use of chart and table tools.

Responsibilities

• Help the team understand player behaviors using data analysis.
• Create and update ad hoc queries and dashboards.
• Design and implement analytics events and queries for game features.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

SQL

Statistical analysis

Presentation skills

Data analysis

Education

BS in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Finance, Statistics or Computer Science

Tools

Tableau

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

XQA is looking for a Data Analyst to join the Tiki Solitaire Tripeaks team for our Scopely partner, working remotely within Canada.

We care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

What You Will Do

As a Data Analyst in our Analytics group, your goal will be to help the team understand the most important behaviors of our players. You’ll use problem-solving skills, sound logic, and data tools like SQL, in order to identify and evaluate trends, determine real value of team initiatives, and clearly communicate results and outcomes. You’ll work with the entire team and provide analytics grounding to business decisions we make every day. You’ll learn our tables, do ad hoc analysis as requested, help our team figure out what they really should be asking, create dashboards where needed, and generally use our data to be the real backbone of our data-driven culture. Most importantly, you’ll use situational awareness to make sure you understand our game, our funnels, our current KPIs and our player behaviors to make sure that your analyses make sense and help the team learn.

What We’re Looking For

• Work with marketing, product, engineering, game design, DBAs and other teams to deliver actionable insights into our games in order to improve our user acquisition, engagement and monetization, including creating and updating ad hoc queries and Tableau/Excel/Google Sheet dashboards
• Design and implement new analytics events and queries for new game features, game events and player offers, to make sure the team gets the information they need to evaluate and improve the game
• Design, implement, organize and analyze advanced statistical testing for specific problem-solving needs (e.g. A/B testing).
• Identify problems, anomalies, trends, issues, and opportunities, by looking at the data and coming to your own conclusions
• Answer business-related questions through exploratory data analyses and ad-hoc reporting.
• Participate in data retention management processes, including defining and updating retention policies and creating/updating tables to optimize data analysis workflow and cost

About You

• BS in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Finance, Statistics or Computer Science, or other analytical discipline
• 2+ years of experience as a data or financial analyst applying statistical analysis to B2C consumer behaviors (mobile apps, advertising, market activities)
• Outstanding problem-solving skills, including the ability to:
• analyze situations and determine the best metrics for a situation
• conceptualize player behaviors based on data
• identify meaningful proxies of player behaviors where data doesn’t exist
• Strong work ethic, intellectual curiosity, and drive to complete projects
• Experience using SQL, including complex queries from multiple data sources
• Experience creating, operating and analyzing multiple simultaneous A/B tests
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including extensive use of chart and table tools
• Ability to understand and act on changing priorities, and execute multiple competing projects based on business case and expected impact
• Familiarity with data and BI presentation tools (Tableau, Excel, pivot tables)

Bonus Points!

• A passion for playing world class mobile, social and casual games a huge plus
• Experience in making world-class social/casual/casino games a huge plus