About the role
Company Overview
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. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia.
Position Overview
The Zynga Poker Analytics Team is seeking a Principal Data Analyst to help drive decisions that impact millions of players worldwide. At Zynga, Principal is the next step above Senior. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our game through data-driven insights.
Key Areas of Impact:
- Product Strategy: Analyze long and short-term trends to deliver insights that influence product direction.
- Experimentation: Design, conduct, and analyze statistically sound experiments that drive measurable impact.
- Business Intelligence: Maintain comprehensive dashboards and ETL pipelines to keep the organization informed on game performance.
- Game Integrity: Enhance fraud detection and bad actor models to maintain a healthy gaming ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Product team to enhance revenue, retention, and engagement metrics, including conducting A/B testing, performing insights analysis, and developing dashboards.
- Analyze player behavior to understand motivations and preferences, partnering with game design and consumer insights teams to translate findings into actionable experience improvements.
- Design and maintain ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources, ensuring source of truth for analyses and business intelligence.
- Participate in and contribute to the Analytics Org’s AI initiative, focusing on improving analytics workflows through AI.
- Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data to improve the game experience.
- Design and maintain a suite of highly visible dashboards used by game leadership and game designers to make strategic decisions for Zynga Poker.
- Support the economy team in tuning the different features in the game to optimize for long-term game and feature health.
- Play a leading role in the design and continuous improvement of our fraud and bad actor models.
- Actively play and engage with our games to maintain first-hand understanding of player experience, game mechanics, and potential pain points.
- Monitor and maintain the integrity of a wide range of tools and models used to streamline workflows and personalize the player experience.
- Continuously learn about analytics best practices and share/promote these practices across various games and teams.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. Advanced degrees (Masters or PhD) are a plus.
- Experience: Minimum of 8 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably with 6 years in a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team.
- Decision Making: Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and analyses and dealing with ambiguous data.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Demonstrated experience in data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
- Familiarity with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau and version control systems such as Git is advantageous.
- Communication: Strong ability in both written and oral communication; ability to explain complex data in simple, actionable terms.
- AI/ML: Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience in automating recurring analytics workflows is a plus.
- Attributes: Highly self-motivated, keen interest in problem-solving, willingness to take ownership of challenges, and proven ability to work collaboratively.
Bonus Points
- Experience or interest in improving analytics team's processes and work efficiency using LLMs.
- Familiarity with poker gameplay and terminology.
- Familiarity with social casino economies.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary Range: The pay range for this position in Ontario is $118,300 to $142,000 per year (base pay varies based on market location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations).
- Total Compensation: May include bonus and/or equity awards, 401(K) plan, and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year.
- Paid vacation time (15 to 25 days) or discretionary time off program.
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year.
- Paid parental and compassionate leave.
- Wellbeing programs for mental health and wellness support.
- Family planning support through Maven.
- Commuter benefits.
- Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.
Employment Requirements
- Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance.
- All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.
- Zynga is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds.