Requisition Number: 165181

Position Title: Senior Analyst

External Description:

Sr. Data Analyst, Sports Analytics

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 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 collaborate with analytics and product leadership to provide recommendations and data intel to our Sports development teams, specifically Madden NFL. You will ensure the most accurate data is being analyzed and tracked into applicable insights. We're looking for a thoughtful, curious person with a passion for diving into data to uncover insights and understand how our players are engaging with Madden's live services. Your analyses will help build financial forecasts and influence game design to promote improved acquisition, retention, and monetization.

 

What a Senior Data Analyst does at EA:

 

• Partner with analysts and live team leadership to identify strategic questions, essential metrics, and applicable insights.
• Produce recommendations and reports to help analysts, live team producers, and product managers make decisions regarding live content performance and feature investments.
• Model trends in our data to predict the ways in which new live service content and campaigns will affect KPIs.
• Present analysis conclusions to team members in a clear, interpretable, and applicable way that can be shared widely.
• Communicate regularly with analytics teams and partners to agree on prioritization, timelines, and analytics outputs.
• Work with large, distributed data sources to conduct analyses.
• Partner with and provides guidance to project managers, software engineers, and database engineers regarding data capture needs and ensures the analytics team has telemetry available to answer questions, build reports, and conduct analysis.
• Conduct analysis while following company-wide best practices such as version control, documentation, and reproducibility.

 

Requirements

 

• BA or BS in Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Management, Information Systems, or a related field
• 3+ years of work experience in an analytical role, demonstrating expertise with data to guide decisions
• Experience in a consumer products-oriented industry; gaming, entertainment, or e-commerce.
• Excellent SQL skills, including experience querying complex data sets on a platform such as Redshift, Snowflake, or Presto; experience on a big data (or NoSQL) platform such as Hadoop or Splunk
• Experience in building financial models using different data sources and tools
• Experience in data mining, machine learning, or statistical modeling
• Experience with data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, Looker, R Shiny)
• Experience with programmatic data analysis tools (e.g. R, Python, Spark Scala)
• Knowledge/interest with EA Sports' franchises (specifically Madden)

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Community / Marketing Title: Senior Data Analyst - Studio Data and Insights

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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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: 63

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.