Data Scientist Gaming

Join this fast growing game development company in Boca Raton, Florida as a Data Scientist. Their games are played in over 40 countries and consistently rank in the top 10 in some of the biggest markets due, in part, to their commitment to building data-driven game features. This company has 4 game development studios in North America and over 150 employees.

Purpose

They are seeking an experienced data scientist to deliver insights from mobile casino game and audience data. The ideal team member will have mathematical, AI and statistical expertise to mine, interpret, and clean game and audience data with responsibility to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover opportunities that lie hidden within the data.

Roles and Expectations

Lead data-driven and evidence-based research to support the delivery of game metrics, KPIs, reporting

Creation of Dashboards that will be used to drive business decisions.

Communicate findings to all stakeholders

Enable smarter business processes-and implement analytics for meaningful insights

Keep current with technical and industry developments

Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with internal team leads (Game Designers, Management and Game Intelligence leads)

Further incorporate data-driven decision-making in operations and Game Design.

Establish KPIs and Dashboard to measure the effectiveness of business decisions

Nice to Have: Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis

Nice to Have: Advanced and predictive analytics Qualifications / Education

Bachelor's degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline

Experience with AB testing

An aptitude for creativity and ability to formulate problems and solve them independently

Preferred: 4+ years of industry experience in predictive modeling, data science, ML and analysis

Preferred: Experience with AI: Machine Learning: Deep Learning & Neural Networks, Predictive Analytics & Math models.

Preferred: Master's degree in stats, applied math, or related discipline (for senior position)

Preferable experience with online gaming data sets (slot games). Skills

Familiarity with data management / visualization /Statistics tools

Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, SQL, PowerBI and programming languages (i.e., Java/Python, SAS, R) and Snowflake.

Preferred: Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis

Preferred: Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modeling experience

Preferred: Experience with machine learning and AI

Tensor Flow, Azure Machine Learning Studio or similar tools Benefits:

All benefits begin and are vested immediately.

Zero deductible health care coverage

30 days sick time

17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays

4% 401k match

Up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance Location:

This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL

It is in-office 5 days per week

Relocation expenses are paid

Applicants should expect to complete an Assessment Evaluation as part of the interview process.

About the company:

Join a team that values people and loves gaming. No TPS reports, guaranteed!

This three studio software engineering company is quickly becoming known as a leading creative developer of online mobile casino games. With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is embracing leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their customers are shifting work from other studios to them as their games are achieving faster market penetration, higher user satisfaction and superior quality. They recruit for attitude and aptitude. They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their small distributed studio approach to growth. You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.