Data Analyst

Requisition Number: 153382

Position Title: Associate Analyst

External Description:

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, NCAA® Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® golf, SSX, and EA SPORTS UFC. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit www.easports.com.

 

The Challenge Ahead:

 

As a Data Analyst you will play a key role in analyzing data to improve the player experience for our Sports titles. You should be a sharp, curious, and analytic individual who has a passion for diving into data and building models to understand how players are interacting with our games. Your insights will influence game design to drive improved acquisition, retention, and monetization.

  

What a Data Analyst does at EA:

 

• Ability to look at data and form hypothesis and test methodologies to identify bad actors.
• Evaluate business questions and determine the data needed to answer them.
• Produces strategic insights to help business stakeholders make business decisions.
• Presents analysis conclusions to business stakeholders in a clear, understandable, and valuable way.
• Identifies and clearly articulates insights drawn from data to include both in person and web- based presentation of findings and recommendations.
• Queries data necessary to conduct analyses.
• Advises product teams about data capture needs.
• Partners with Business Intelligence and Database Engineers to identify and manage data requirements to support high-quality analysis and reporting.
• Documents analysis methodologies, conclusions, and business actions taken.
• Considers analysis transparency and reproducibility as best practices.
• Communicates clearly (and as often as needed) with team members and business stakeholders.
• Supports senior team members with data identification and retrieval.

 

Requirements

 

• BA or BS in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
• SQL skills; experience querying large, complex data sets on a platform such as Redshift is a plus; experience on a big data (or NoSQL) platform such as Hadoop or Splunk is a plus
• Experience in data mining, machine learning, or statistical modeling
• Experience with a data visualization application; Tableau is a plus
• Experience with a statistical software package; R is a plus
• Experience with a scripting language; Python is a plus
• Ability to effectively communicate with people at various levels of business and technical expertise, including the ability to simplify difficult technical concepts

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

EEOText: About EA At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Date Opened: 2018-10-26 19:55:02.38

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About EA

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. 

We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! 

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.