About the role
Company Overview
Lighthouse Games is a new AAA studio based in Leamington Spa. The studio is defined by a pedigree of talent and ambition to build best-in-class games within a collaborative environment.
Role Description
Reporting to the Director of Live Service, the Head of Analytics will own the end-to-end analytics strategy and team for a new AAA IP. Responsibilities include defining how to measure and understand player behaviour and acting as the analytics voice within the studio.
Key Duties
- Decide what needs to be built: define the analytics strategy, event taxonomies, and instrumentation roadmap.
- Lead the team day to day: setting priorities, reviewing work, and unblocking delivery.
- Deliver actionable insight by turning data and analysis into clear recommendations.
- Manage partnerships across the studio, particularly with design, to get analytics requirements built and prioritised.
- Deliver forecasting, build outlooks and scenarios, and pressure test assumptions.
- Lead data governance and privacy by driving compliance across analytics and data pipelines, monitoring data quality, managing access, and keeping documentation current.
- Act as the primary analytics counterpart to the publisher’s analytics team, aligning on data definitions and reporting.
Requirements
- Demonstrated track record owning analytics for a live product at meaningful scale in games, digital products or platforms with an ongoing live cadence.
- Proven leadership of analysts and data engineers, including setting standards, reviewing work and coaching craft.
- Genuinely strong, hands-on SQL, comfortable writing and reviewing complex queries yourself.
- Ability to build and defend a forecast or scenario model with statistical rigor.
- Clear communication that tells a story with data and explains trade-offs to creative and commercial partners.
- A practical approach to experimentation and decision-making when formal tests aren't feasible.
Benefits
- 25 Days Holiday, plus 1 day for your birthday
- Studio Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Private Pension Scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Health and Well-Being Benefits
- Dental Care
- Optical treatments
- Mental Health Support