Requisition Number: 172499

Position Title: Data Scientist I

External Description:

Senior Analyst, Marketing Analytics

Full-Time | Manages People: No | Location: Redwood Shores, CA

We are looking for an experienced senior analyst to join the Marketing Analytics team, reporting to a manager of Marketing and Commercial Analytics.

As a member of the team, you will be working independently and collaboratively on a diverse number of problems and challenges unique to the gaming industry. The scope of the work will involve pulling in large amounts of data, running complicated analysis pipelines, conducting experiments, developing data products and models, and more.

You will work with leaders from the marketing, commercial, and studio organizations to understand their data and decision-making needs, and then prescribe an analytical approach to address those needs. As such, you will need to work closely with your partners and team members, orient your work towards clear business objectives, and ensure your insights are easily understandable for audiences with varying analytical backgrounds. This role will require considerable self-driving and autonomy but will offer a lot of creative space to solve problems and drive impact.

You will be a part of a global team that interacts with all parts of the organization, working across time zones and geographical locations to collaborate and partner on complex projects. Due to this you will gain a wide visibility into the structure of this large organization and its operation.

 

What you will do

• Proactively explore large first-party data sets to identify opportunities, ideate, and generate project ideas and initiatives.
• Apply statistical, experimental, and machine learning methods to solve business problems, optimize output, and generate insights and learnings.
• Find creative and original ways to get around data availability, consistency, or comprehensiveness issues to arrive at proxy solutions addressing the needs of the organization.
• Connect with partners and stakeholders to understand and articulate their requirements into an analytically framed list of requirements to ensure it supports their needs.
• Take a structured and methodical approach analyses, working from a thought-out analysis plan with predefined milestones and checkpoints.
• Package and present the results of analyses to partners and stakeholders as needed, adjusting the output as needed for the target audience.
• Use foundational learnings and insights to build data products that inform decision makers at critical junctures.
• Evangelize results and learnings across the organization, promoting team output to partners and stakeholders.
• Create, maintain, and automate various data extraction, transformation, and loading processes.

 

Your profile

• Curious and creative, you enjoy working on complex problems, exploring data, and extracting the signal from the noise.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Able to operationalize abstract questions into a quantitative investigation and tackle them in a data-driven manner.
• Strong communication skills - regular project updates, communication with and across teams, and analytical “storytelling” - distilling quantitative insights into easy to digest and intuitive presentation form.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a team, and with other teams spread globally.
• You have the enthusiasm and motivation to challenge thinking and promote meaningful change.
• Gaming experience or industry familiarity an advantage.

 

Background and Technical skills

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) field or economics; Advanced degrees an advantage. Will also consider candidates with advanced degrees in social sciences – psychology, sociology, economics, etc. (given an appropriate statistical skillset). 
• Minimum 3 years of relevant hands-on analytical experience, advantage for experience in gaming or other entertainment industries. Advantage for previous marketing analytics experience.
• Knowledge-of and practical experience with statistics, probability, and hypothesis testing.
• Knowledge of experimental design and execution a plus.
• Strong SQL skills for data extraction and manipulation.
• Expertise with R (preferred) or Python for data analysis and data visualization. 
• Advanced statistics and computational skills a plus - e.g., modeling, machine learning, programming.
• Strong visualization, dashboarding (Looker), and BI skills an advantage.

 

EA is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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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: 70

Can this position be remote?: 0

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.