Senior Director, Data Science and Data Analytics
King
- San Francisco, CA
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Lead the data science driven initiatives/projects in building data products that power our advertising and monetization platform.
- Leverage understanding of metrics, testing methodology and business strategy to help define the roadmap of the company.
- Promote and use advanced modeling techniques (eg. reinforcement learning, time series forecasting, causal methods) to provide precise measurement of our player base.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to fellow data scientists by disseminating standard methodologies, publishing reusable tools/code and giving valuable feedback.
- Present and visualize results in a clear and concise way to senior management for decision making.
- Lead data-driven decision making by partnering with key multi-functional teams and leadership.
- Proactively identify and lead improvements to the execution of research and analytics within the Data Science team.
- Prior experience in advertising data products.
- Experience in leading multiple high impact ad-initiatives.
- An advanced degree in a quantitative field - computer science, engineering, statistics, operations research, economics, etc.
- 6+ years of demonstrable experience in Analytics or Data Science both as an individual contributor and potentially leading teams
- Consistent record of leading and influencing projects using data and working with large scale data and infrastructure
- Be an authority expert and analysis lead for ad products.
- Can research, identify and disseminate standard methodologies across teams in terms of tools, systems and processes.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively about data problems with multi-functional audiences (e.g Product, Engineering, Business Strategy) in simple common language.
- You are methodological and practical; able to prioritize and assist with business requests i.e. analyzing A/B tests, strange player behavior, complex interaction dynamics, etc.
- Experience with a broad set of statistical and machine learning methods to solve and optimize critical business problems and metrics.
- Prior experience in the games industry
- Ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced, rapidly changing and collaborative environment.
- The ability to write complex SQL queries and work effectively in any functional programming language for numerical analysis purposes.
- Ability to triage a problem clearly and come up with a solution.
- Strong alignment to data driven development and design, with an experimental and analytical approach to product improvement.
- Able to show good communication skills, and experience in visualizing and reporting takeaways.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
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