Data Science Lead

Data Science Lead - Gameplay (Remote)

Location: Cary, North Carolina, 27518

Job Type: Contract

Category: Data Warehousing

Pay Rate: $57 - $71 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global's client, a leading company in the gaming space is looking for Senior Data Analyst Lead to join their Analytics team - specifically focusing on gameplay analytics. You’ll lead a small team of data analysts and apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, to impact the direction of efforts across a portfolio of products and ecosystems within the Gameplay space. The successful candidate will have the ability to apply a range of data technologies, statistical methods, and visualization methods to influence development and product teams, to manage the technical direction of a small team (4 FTEs + 1 Contractor) and to partner with stakeholders across all parts of the business.

In this role, you will
• Partner with design, game development, and product management counterparts to identify opportunities for our first party Games and the business and use data to develop metrics and insights that shape the execution of the strategy
• Work directly with engineering and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required to unlock insights and data models
• Transform raw data into data models, production metrics, reports and insights
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and to align them with long-term ecosystem growth
• Work with design, product, and analytics teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and learn from experiments to improve our games
• Lead a small team of data analysts, help mentor them and set the direction of our analytics approach

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Required Skills & Experience

- At least 5 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
- Experience with writing efficient and scalable SQL over billions of rows
- Experience launching games and designing telemetry
- Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment
- Experience with working with development teams to instrument data and ensure continued data quality
- Familiarity with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow)
- Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques
- Familiarity with Tableau (advisory level is acceptable)
- Experience translating stakeholder needs into analytics roadmaps
- Experience presenting to non-technical senior leadership

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Advanced statistical training and a thorough understanding of the associated strengths and weaknesses of different statistical approaches is a plus
- Experience in a “full-stack” environment - data file ingest, ETL, data storage interaction, application development, communication of results to storage systems, code version control is a plus
- Familiarity with distributed computing using Spark (Scala or PySpark

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.