Senior Game Data Analyst

3M HEALTHCARE; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 124,900 - 187,300; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo is seeking a Senior Game Data Analyst to partner with game teams and publishing stakeholders to answer questions about player behavior, feature performance, monetization, and long-term game health.

You will lead analysis across behavior, monetization, and health, develop proxy metrics, and build dashboards to inform decisions across design, product, publishing, and leadership. Strong SQL and BI-tool experience are required.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with large event-level gameplay data.
• Ability to turn raw gameplay data into clear insights.
• Experience analyzing player behavior and game systems (progression, economy, combat).
• Experience partnering with designers, producers, product managers, researchers, engineers, or game leadership.
• Ability to distinguish between signals, such as challenge vs frustration or novelty vs durable engagement.
• Strong communication to explain data support and remaining uncertainties.
• Background in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Partner with game teams and publishing stakeholders to answer questions about player behavior, feature performance, and game health.
• Lead analysis across player behavior, feature and content performance, monetization, and overall game health.
• Turn ambiguous questions into analytical plans and recommendations.
• Develop proxy metrics for player-experience goals and build dashboards.

Skills

SQL skills

Exploratory analysis

Player behavior analysis

Communication skills

Statistics background

Education

Quantitative background

Tools

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

About PlayStation Game Analytics

In Games and Publishing Analytics, we work with some of the most legendary studios in the world, supporting teams behind PlayStation franchises such as Uncharted, The Last of Us, Ghost of Yotei, God of War, and Helldivers 2. We provide end‑to‑end analytics for PlayStation Studios, helping teams understand players, evaluate game systems, and make data‑informed decisions from early development through launch.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Game Data Analyst, you’ll partner with game teams and publishing stakeholders to answer complex questions about player behavior, feature performance, commercial outcomes, and long‑term game health.

You will:

• Lead analysis across player behavior, feature and content performance, monetization, and overall game health.
• Turn ambiguous design, product, and publishing questions into clear analytical plans and recommendations.
• Develop proxy metrics for player‑experience goals such as pacing, challenge, friction, agency, and build diversity.
• Combine telemetry, playtests, surveys, sentiment, and product context to evaluate whether features are landing as intended.
• Apply judgment to imperfect evidence, including small samples, pre‑launch tests, incomplete telemetry, noisy signals, and bias.
• Support commercial questions around launch, acquisition, segmentation, campaigns, and franchise health.
• Build dashboards and analytical frameworks that support consistent decision‑making.
• Communicate insights clearly across design, product, publishing, research, engineering, data science, and leadership.

What we are looking for

• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large behavioral datasets, especially event‑level gameplay data.
• Strong exploratory analysis skills and the ability to turn raw gameplay data into clear insight.
• Experience analyzing player behavior and game systems, including progression, combat, economy, difficulty, matchmaking, feature adoption, engagement, retention, or segmentation.
• Experience partnering directly with designers, producers, product managers, researchers, engineers, or game leadership.
• Ability to distinguish between similar‑looking behavioral signals, such as challenge versus frustration, friction versus intentional difficulty, novelty versus durable engagement, or confusion versus experimentation.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain what the data supports, what remains uncertain, and what teams should do next.
• A background in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or another applied quantitative discipline.

Domain Experience

• 4+ years of analytics experience in the games industry, ideally supporting game development, live operations, player behavior analysis, feature evaluation, or gameplay systems.
• 2+ years of experience working on a shipped game, live service game, or game team operating through rapid development cycles such as playtests, launch, live events, or content releases.
• Familiarity with the realities of game development, including changing priorities, incomplete information, telemetry gaps, cross‑functional dependencies, and decisions that cannot wait for perfect data.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience with Python, R, or statistical tooling for experimentation, causal inference, metric validation, forecasting, or behavioral modeling.
• Experience with Looker, Power BI, MicroStrategy, Tableau, or another BI tool with a semantic layer.
• Familiarity with Git or other reproducible analysis workflows.
• Experience across live service or games with complex progression, economy, combat, content, or social systems.
• Familiarity with publishing or commercial analytics, including acquisition, launch performance, campaign impact, monetization, forecasting, or franchise health.

$124,900 — $187,300 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.