Sr. Data Analyst, Sports

Requisition Number: 153321

Position Title: Senior 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 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 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:

 

• Receives questions from the business, understands the questions, and determines 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.

 

Requirements

 

• BA or BS in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or 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 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
• Extensive knowledge/interest with EA Sports’ franchises (e.g. Madden) is a plus

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.は、インタラクティブ・エンターテイメント・ソフトウェアの世界的大手企業です。 EAは、インターネットに接続されたコンソール、パソコン、携帯電話、タブレットに対してゲーム、コンテンツおよびオンラインサービスを提供しています。

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Days Open: 112

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。