We’re looking for an experienced Game Data Analyst to join a well-known, UK studio who are widely respected throughout the games industry. Their highly successful, AAA flagship title has enjoyed sustained success and a growing player base with legions of adoring fans around the world, as a Game Data Analyst you will play a direct role in shaping the decision making to improve upon the game experiences of millions of players around the world. You will be an integral part of a cross-disciplinary insights team and collaborate closely with Game Designers and Producers to understand business challenges, then craft research initiatives and analyse complex datasets to uncover valuable insights about the player base. Your primary focus will involve leveraging game and platform telemetry to turn data analysis into insights about both the game and its players. Please note this is an 18-month contract position, to be worked remotely from within the UK. As such, anyone applying should currently reside in the UK and hold a full right to work in the UK. Your responsibilities… Work closely with game designers & producers to understand current and new game features to identify opportunities for research and design. Research game telemetry design, analytics and present your findings. Write complex set of SQL/Python to extract and analyse big, complex, multi-dimensional datasets within Databricks. Own instrumentation of game telemetry during development phase; work closely with Engineering and QA teams to assure timely implementation and quality of the identified BI hooks, Generate actionable reports and recommendations on features that will improve retention, monetisation and acquisition. Identify pain points for players and work with the Management team, Design, and Production to develop strategies to address key problem areas. Share both game feature specific and general player insights with executive leadership and game teams regularly. Create cogent reports that are simultaneously data-rich and easily digested. Look for opportunities to deploy more experiments within the game, like designing A/B tests that assess the impact and implementing content recommenders. The skills and experience you will bring to the role… 2 or more years’ experience as a Data Analyst in the games industry. A passion for playing games yourself. Experience with planning and instrumenting game/platform telemetry. Experience working with data engineers to create datasets based on customer behaviour. Strong working knowledge of SQL and/or Python. Strong analytic and Excel skills Experience with presenting data, and creating reports (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau). Communication, organisational and collaboration skills. Experience answering research questions around customer engagement. Bonus point if you have Knowledge of digital product analytics, including telemetry, KPIs, and engagement metrics. Proficiency in statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design methodologies.