Yahoo Games is seeking a strategic analytics expert to understand player behavior, craft actionable stories from data, and guide product, design, and engineering decisions to power engaging, monetizable gaming experiences.
Requirements
- Expert in data storytelling, with a proven track record of supporting game studios or gaming platforms with clear, actionable insights.
- Highly skilled in SQL and Python for advanced analytics, automation of reporting pipelines, and large-scale data manipulation (GCP/BigQuery/LookML a plus).
- Deep experience designing and analyzing controlled experiments in a gaming context (A/B tests on game features, tutorials, progression systems).
- Hands-on with executive dashboard creation and metric harmonization for gaming KPIs using tools like Looker, Tableau—bonus if you’ve built dashboards for games product teams.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and bias for action, thriving in ambiguous, growth-driven gaming environments.
- Experience empowering non-analytical stakeholders to self-serve via dashboards, explores, and alerting.
- Track record of defining and evolving player and game-level metrics; driving consensus and adoption within the Games squad.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and segment player audiences to inform game development, feature prioritization, and live operations strategies.
- Assess player retention drivers, cross-game engagement patterns, and monetization trends (e.g., in-app purchases, ad revenue).
- Design and analyze A/B and multivariate tests on game mechanics, UI features, and content updates.
- Partner with product managers, game developers, and engineers to instrument gameplay events, develop clean measurement plans, and ensure trusted data capture.
- Lead definition and harmonization of key game metrics (DAU, MAU, ARPDAU, LTV, churn, etc.), creating single sources of truth for reporting and dashboarding.
- Build and maintain executive dashboards in Looker, Tableau, or equivalent BI tools, tailored to Yahoo Games leadership.
- Develop automated alerting in Slack or email for major shifts in core game KPIs.
Other
- 5+ years as a business, product, or data scientist—ideally supporting games, gaming platforms, or entertainment tech.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Excellent communicator, able to present findings confidently to game executives, production leads, and studio partners.
- Must be able to work effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.
- Flexible hybrid work options, with occasional in-person events or team sessions.
