Senior Data Scientist, Game Difficulty & Economy

King

Stockholms kommun

On-site

SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

8 days ago
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Job summary

King is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to partner with product, design and engineering on game difficulty, progression, and economy for Candy Crush Saga. You’ll influence how 23,000+ levels balance and evolve to keep players engaged at scale.

You will lead analyses, experiments, and models that directly shape gameplay decisions, working across product, design, and engineering to prioritize impact and balance across millions of players.

Qualifications

  • Strong product sense with the ability to reason about player experience, engagement, and frustration.
  • Ability to translate design intent and game experience into measurable hypotheses and analyses.
  • Excellent SQL skills and experience working with large-scale player data.
  • Strong analytical coding skills in Python or R
  • Solid understanding of A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical inference
  • Experience combining experimental results with observational analysis
  • Comfortable defining tracking requirements and building data models and dashboards to support your own analyses

Responsibilities

  • Analyze game difficulty, progression, and player behavior across the level catalog to identify friction, pacing issues, and opportunities.
  • Design, monitor, and analyze A/B tests related to difficulty, features, and economy.
  • Use data, models, and simulations to inform difficulty tuning, balance, and how features, boosters, and economy mechanics interact with player outcomes.
  • Communicate insights, experiment results, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy.
  • Define tracking specifications so the data needed to understand player interaction with levels and features is available and reliable.

Skills

Product sense
Storytelling
Cross-functional
Data-driven reasoning

Tools

Python
R
SQL
Experimentation platforms

Job description

King is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to partner with product, design and engineering on game difficulty, progression, and economy for Candy Crush Saga. You’ll influence how 23,000+ levels balance and evolve to keep players engaged at scale.

You will lead analyses, experiments, and models that directly shape gameplay decisions, working across product, design, and engineering to prioritize impact and balance across millions of players.

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