Team Name:
Marketing
Senior Data Analyst
R027461
We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to drive strategic analysis focused on identification, evaluation, and execution of opportunities to drive growth and operational excellence for Blizzard games’ success in China.
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Construct the vision for product-wide analysis to find compelling and actionable business insights. Address high level strategic questions through a holistic planning including. clarifying on the question, developing hypotheses, building analytic structure to address the hypotheses.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, marketing, developers and external partners to deliver impactful insights.
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Scope and perform analyses, provide detailed analytical reports, develop KPIs, and produce self-service dashboards from a massive raw dataset to drive business decisions.
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Effectively present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
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Analyze player behavior across different game titles, cohorts, and lifecycle stages, and translate insights into clear business recommendations
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Support product and game ops teams with deep-dive analyses on features, events, economy balance, and live tuning decisions.
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Partner closely with Product, Game Ops, Marketing, and Commercial teams as a trusted analytics advisor.
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Build and maintain analytical models (e.g., cohort analysis, funnel analysis, LTV, churn drivers).
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Identify data gaps and work with data engineering or platform teams to improve data quality and availability.
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Help define analytics best practices, metrics definitions, and data governance standards.
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Proactively identify opportunities to automate and scale recurring analyses.
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Perform other duties as assigned.
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Analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills, demonstrated by the ability to structure an issue and analyze alternative solutions.
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Curious, internally motivated self-starter with ability to plan, organize, and establish priorities to manage multiple projects and achieve results.
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Have the ability to structure a concise, clear presentation of findings, based on large sets of complex data, and effectively present this to any level in the organization with appropriate visualizations.
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Ability to manage analytical projects from requirement gathering to presentation and reporting.
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Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing.
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5+ years of work experience in data analysis, preferably in Gaming, Management Consulting, eCommerce or Entertainment industry.
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
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Experience communicating and advocating with analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision making
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Proficient in SQL; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau; R or Python knowledge is a plus
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Proven track record of influencing business or product decisions through data insights.
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Strong business acumen; able to frame analysis in the context of commercial and product impact.
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Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
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Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.
Extra
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A long time gamer, understand gamer behaviors and the gaming community.
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Experience supporting live service games (GaaS) or multi-title portfolios.
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Experience working with regional partners (especially China) and global stakeholders.
