2K is hiring a
Senior Data Analyst Mobile

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, problem solvers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What We Need:

We are seeking a senior data analyst who will enable the game Studio behind one of our top titles to confidently make data driven decisions. The ideal candidate will be responsible for delivering data tools, telemetry, dashboards and compelling insights to influence game development and growth. You will be someone who has a good balance of business thinking alongside analytical and technical skills.

What You Will Do:

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Mobile Analytics, you will be responsible for: 

• Business Insight: Understand the problems our Studios and partners want to solve for, and then define the right data, metrics, analysis and interpretation to lead to the right recommendations and decisions
• Understand players: Help us to further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players and enable our Studios to launch new titles, develop features, 
• and live ops events. 
• ETL pipeline: Owning ETL pipeline for one of our top titles by partnering closely with data engineering
• Telemetry design: Collaborating with our studio developers and designing in-game telemetry to measure player behavior
• Being the technical data expert in communications with stakeholders and providing regular game health updates to stakeholders as well as leadership teams.
• Creating and maintaining reporting dashboards: overseeing data quality, amalgamate data from multiple sources for creating and tracking key KPIs.

What Will Make You a Great Fit

• 4+ years of work experience in data science or analytics role
• SQL: The ability to write complex SQL queries to analyze our databases with millions of players and work with relational database systems.
• Familiar with querying in Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres etc.
• Analytical coding: Fluency in programming via languages such as Python or R
• Visualization: Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau or Looker
• Tech skill: Proven experience with some or all of the following: statistics, experimental design, machine learning, predictive modeling, deep learning
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, with different functions with changing priorities
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, game designers, game engineers, marketing and other analysts to deliver unambiguous business impact
• Excellent attention to detail, natural curiosity, and ability to problem-solve creatively
• Great communication and presentation skills to be able to converse with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self starter- proactively dive deep into the data, develop analytical hypotheses and come up with actionable insights for improving the product. 

Bonus Points

• Consistent track record in data challenges in similar roles, preferably within mobile gaming or similarly customer- facing digital businesses
• Familiarity with telemetry/analytics SaaS tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude)
• Familiarity with massive data sets and tools to deal with them (E.g. Snowflake, Databricks, AWS)
• Experience in behavioral psychology/economics and experimental design
• Knowledge and love for the NBA and WWE franchises preferred
• Passion for mobile games

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

#LI-Remote

This is a fully remote role that may be based anywhere in the United States. The pay range for this position for applicants based in Colorado at the start of employment is expected to be between $98,000 and $140,000 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.   Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.  Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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