Requisition Number: 170578

Position Title: Senior Analyst

External Description:

Senior Business Analyst, The Sims™

About the Role:

At Maxis, creator of The Sims™, we excel at outrageous thinking. It's the fuel that inspires the best life simulation games in the world. We're great storytellers. But it's not just about amazing your peers—it's about amazing yourself and our fans. Take risks and dare to dream big. Together, we can affect millions of players every day.

As a Senior Business Analyst on The Sims™ 4, you'll be handed the keys to our massive store of player behavior and commercial data. You'll unearth insights and produce forecasts that inform the development of our games. You will report to the Manager of Analytics.

You will work with team leaders from our Product Management, Commercial, Finance, Engineering, Production, User Experience and Data Products team, supporting the continued growth of The Sims™ 4. From engagement forecasting, to game measurement and insights delivery, you will have a significant influence on the world's leading life simulation game.

Your colleagues will be a tight-knit studio of enthusiastic industry craftspeople from all walks of life and a variety of different locations around the world. You'll also join a group of experienced analysts and data scientists as a member of the embedded-and-dedicated Studios Data and Insights (SDI) team.

The Sims™ 4 has an extremely unique player base, attracting a large, young, female-skewing audience. If you're passionate about games and excited about contributing to the best possible experience for our players through data and insights, come join us!

 

Key Responsibilities

• Business Intelligence and Game Health Measurement: Take ownership of analysis on The Sims™ 4 business, querying large datasets to evaluate our game's performance, including deep dives into sales and in-game behavioral data. Partner with analysts from our commercial, financial, and PM teams to create narratives that clarify the state of the business. Develop meaningful data visualizations in Looker.
• Engagement Forecasting: Oversee weekly active user (WAU) forecasting, using your deep experience with time-series forecasting and other predictive modeling methodologies.
• Live Service Analysis: Measure the impact/success of live service events, free content updates, and DLC launches. Establish benchmarks and provide projections during the planning phases; perform analysis to inform retrospectives; make recommendations for feature and content improvement.
• Drive Change: Influence decisions and product strategy through fact-based, data-driven insights
• Educate and Train: Be a contributor in our team's data democratization and education effort. Teach users of varying data proficiency levels how to use dashboards and access data. Help those who are less familiar understand the right questions to ask, and how they can better use data. Encourage all partners to adopt hypothesis-driven thinking.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working as a data analyst in a professional setting;
• Deep statistical knowledge including an understanding of probability, correlation, regression, and classification;
• Experience with A/B and multivariate test analysis;
• Advanced/expert proficiency querying large datasets with SQL;
• Experience using Python and R for data analysis;
• Translate technical concepts to non-technical partners;
• A passion for Games.

Additional Skills:

• Experience working the Games industry
• Experience with Snowflake and Looker (LookML);
• Experience with machine learning and other predictive modeling techniques
• A love for The Sims™!

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Community / Marketing Title: Senior Business Analyst (Studio Data & Insights)

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 78

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.