Data Analyst

Zynga Game Network India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Zynga is seeking a Senior Data Analyst for its Bengaluru team to model user behavior and improve game experiences. You will work with large datasets, design experiments, and build scalable analytics capabilities that inform product decisions and drive engagement.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deploy models into production and deliver measurable business impact at scale. A strong background in data science and gaming is preferred.

Qualifications

• BS in a quantitative field such as CS, math, statistics or economics.
• 5+ years in data science or analytics roles with strong SQL and Python skills.
• Experience with ML/DS methods and scalable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify and formalize problems to understand user behavior and game metrics.
• Deliver analytics projects aligned with roadmaps and product goals.
• Build dashboards and data products, communicating insights to non-technical teams.
• Collaborate with game teams to productionize models that impact millions of users.

Skills

SQL

Python

Tableau

QlikView

Statistics

Experimental design

Machine learning

Deep learning

Hadoop/Spark

Communication

Gaming passion

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/Math/Stats/Economics

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Tableau

QlikView

Job description

Senior Data Analyst Level Up Your Career with Zynga! At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more! Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level. Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview

Zynga’s data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games. Here’s where you would come in: identify and formalize problems to understand user behavior. Create systems and analyses to derive insights that change the studio’s world view. Be innovative, be creative, use every bit of that key commodity – data. Millions of people play Zynga games every day, so our data is tremendously rich and we have a lot of it! We will rely on you to communicate your findings to your peers – both technical and non-technical. Your solutions to difficult problems will need to be demonstrably impactful, visual and maintainable. You will work with our game teams to put your models into production. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Game Designers, and Engineers to deliver business impact, changing current practices in line with new findings and insights.

What You’ll Do

• Work with large amounts of data to find opportunities to improve the experience that Zynga provides to its players
• Deliver analytics and data science projects that are aligned with the roadmap, and product goals - balancing actionable insights to substantially improve core game metrics
• Drive and empower game studio to make quantitatively informed, evidence based decisions through maintaining source of truth data sources and dashboards
• Work closely with game team to design, test, verify and implement machine learning models and product features with Zynga’s games that impact millions of users.

What You Bring

• BS in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field; Masters, MBA or PhD preferred
• 5+ years of work experience in data science or analytics roles
• Fluent in SQL; Solid experience with programming in Python; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau, or QlikView
• Demonstrable experience with some or all of the following: statistics, experimental design, machine learning, deep learning
• Experience in analyzing large datasets, preferably in a Hadoop or Spark environment, and deploying production ready systems at scale
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, analysts, and marketing to deliver unambiguous business impact
• Strong passion for gaming!

What we offer you

• 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

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process.

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Experience Level Senior Level