Senior Data Scientist Gaming

Join a fast-growing game development company in Boca Raton, Florida whose games are played in over 40 countries and consistently rank in the top 10 in some of the biggest markets. The company operates four game development studios in North America and employs over 150 people.

About the role

They are seeking an experienced data scientist to deliver insights from mobile casino game and audience data. The ideal team member will have mathematical, AI, and statistical expertise to mine, interpret, and clean game and audience data with responsibility to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover opportunities hidden within the data.

Responsibilities

• Lead data-driven and evidence-based research to support the delivery of game metrics, KPIs, and reporting.
• Create dashboards that will be used to drive business decisions.
• Communicate findings to all stakeholders.
• Enable smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights.
• Keep current with technical and industry developments.
• Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with internal team leads (Game Designers, Management, and Game Intelligence leads).
• Further incorporate data-driven decision-making in operations and Game Design.
• Establish KPIs and dashboards to measure the effectiveness of business decisions.
• Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis (nice to have).
• Advanced and predictive analytics (nice to have).

Requirements

• Proven success and ownership of analytics work end-to-end, including data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support.
• Hands-on responsibility for defining and owning KPIs, not just visualizing existing metrics.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards (Tableau or Power BI) that were actively used to drive business or product decisions.
• Regular use of SQL to work with production or large datasets.
• Experience delivering ongoing or recurring reporting, not only one-off or exploratory analyses.
• Direct involvement in experimentation or A/B testing, including hypothesis definition, measurement, and interpretation.
• Experience translating analysis into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.
• Work experience in a business or product environment, not purely academic or research settings.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline.

Skills

• User segmentation.
• Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis.
• Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modeling experience.
• Experience with machine learning and AI.
• TensorFlow, Azure Machine Learning Studio, or similar tools.

Benefits

• All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
• Zero deductible health care coverage.
• 30 days sick time.
• 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's, and Federal holidays.
• 4% 401k match.
• Up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based on personal and game team performance.

Schedule

This role is in-office 5 days per week.

Pay

Relocation expenses are paid.

About the company

Join a team that values people and loves gaming. This three-studio software engineering company is quickly becoming known as a leading creative developer of online mobile casino games. With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, the company embraces leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their games achieve faster market penetration, higher user satisfaction, and superior quality, leading customers to shift work from other studios to them. They recruit for attitude and aptitude, believing the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great products with minimal supervision or overhead.