Requisition Number: 155577

Position Title: Senior Analyst

External Description:

Sr. Data Analyst, Sports Analytics

 Location: Orlando, FL

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling video game 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 video games, 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 Senior 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 analytical 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 Senior Data Analyst does at EA:

• Produces strategic insights to help business stakeholders (e.g. Marketing, Brand, Development, etc.) make informed business decisions regarding live content performance and feature investment.
• Receives questions from the business, understands the questions, and determines the data needed to answer them.
• Presents analysis conclusions to business stakeholders in a clear, interpretable, and actionable way.
• Communicates clearly (and as often as needed) with team.
• Works with large, distributed data sources to conduct analyses.
• Provides guidance to product teams regarding data capture needs and ensures the analytics team has sufficient telemetry available to answer important business questions.
• Partners with Business Intelligence and Database Engineers to identify and manage data requirements to support high-quality analysis and reporting.
• Conducts effective analysis while adhering to company-wide best practices such as version control, documentation, and reproducibility.

Requirements

• BA or BS in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related field
• 3-6 years of work experience in a prior analytical role, demonstrating expertise with data to drive business decisions
• Experience in a consumer products-oriented industry; gaming, entertainment, or e-commerce is a plus.
• Excellent SQL skills, including 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 data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Shiny)
• Experience with programmatic data analysis tools (e.g. R, Python, Spark Scala)
• Ability to effectively communicate with people at various levels of business and technical expertise, including the ability to simplify difficult technical concepts
• Extensive knowledge/interest with EA Sports’ franchises (specifically Madden) is a plus

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 72

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.