Senior Data Scientist Gaming

QDStaff; Boca Raton (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation expenses paid

17 vacation days

5 paid holidays

Bonus up to 25% quarterly

Job summary

QDStaff in Boca Raton, FL is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to turn mobile casino game data into actionable insights and strategic decisions. The role emphasizes analytics leadership, KPI definition, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position involves crafting dashboards, communicating findings to stakeholders, and enabling data-driven decisions across game design and management. Relocation assistance is provided and the role is based in-office.

Qualifications

• End-to-end analytics including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support.
• Definition and ownership of KPIs; not just visualization of metrics.
• Experience building dashboards used to drive business decisions.
• Regular SQL usage with production or large datasets.
• Experience with ongoing or recurring reporting and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead data-driven and evidence-based research to support metrics, KPIs, and reporting.
• Create dashboards to drive business decisions and actions.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders and translate insights into recommendations.
• Enable smarter business processes by implementing analytics for meaningful insights.
• Keep up with technical and industry developments and apply them.
• Translate data into visual stories to guide strategy with game leads.
• Establish KPIs and dashboards to measure decision impact.
• Research and devise innovative statistical models and predictive analytics.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

A/B testing

Dashboards

Statistics

Machine learning

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Join this fast growing game development company in Boca Raton, Florida as a Data Scientist. Their games are played in over 40 countries and consistently rank in the top 10 in some of the biggest markets due, in part, to their commitment to building data-driven game features. This company has 4 game development studios in North America and over 150 employees.

Purpose

They are seeking an experienced data scientist to deliver insights from mobile casino game and audience data. The ideal team member will have mathematical, AI and statistical expertise to mine, interpret, and clean game and audience data with responsibility to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover opportunities that lie hidden within the data.

Roles and Expectations

• Lead data-driven and evidence-based research to support the delivery of game metrics, KPIs, reporting
• Creation of Dashboards that will be used to drive business decisions.
• Communicate findings to all stakeholders
• Enable smarter business processes—and implement analytics for meaningful insights
• Keep current with technical and industry developments
• Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with internal team leads (Game Designers, Management and Game Intelligence leads)
• Further incorporate data-driven decision-making in operations and Game Design.
• Establish KPIs and Dashboard to measure the effectiveness of business decisions
• Nice to Have: Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis
• Nice to Have: Advanced and predictive analytics

Required Qualifications

• Proven success and ownership of analytics workend to end, including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support
• Hands-on responsibility fordefining and owning KPIs, not just visualizing existing metrics
• Experience building and maintainingdashboards (Tableau or Power BI)that were actively used to drive business or product decisions
• Regular use ofSQLto work with production or large datasets
• Experience deliveringongoing or recurring reporting, not only one-off or exploratory analyses
• Direct involvement inexperimentation or A/B testing, including hypothesis definition, measurement, and interpretation
• Experience translating analysis intoclear recommendationsfor non-technical stakeholders
• Work experience in abusiness or product environment, not purely academic or research settings
• Ownership of analytics workend to end, including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support
• Proficient with data management, visualization, and modeling tools
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
• Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modeling experience
• Experience with machine learning and AI
  • Tensor Flow, Azure Machine Learning Studio or similar tools
• All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
• 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays
• Up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance

Location:

• This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL
• It is in-office 5 days per week
• Relocation expenses are paid

Applicants should expect to complete an Assessment Evaluation as part of the interview process.

About the company:

Join a team that values people and loves gaming. No TPS reports, guaranteed!

This three studio software engineering company is quickly becoming known as a leading creative developer of online mobile casino games. With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is embracing leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their customers are shifting work from other studios to them as their games are achieving faster market penetration, higher user satisfaction and superior quality. They recruit for attitude and aptitude. They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their small distributed studio approach to growth. You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indiegame development.