Chief Data Strategist

4 days ago


Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Blizzard Entertainment Full time

Principal Data Scientist

Craft: Data, Analytics & Strategy

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Scientist to join our team. This person will act as a senior mentor and individual contributor, helping the team understand, model, predict, and segment player experiences in our game.

This is the perfect role for someone who has proven ability to apply their skills to generate business value, and wants to continue to grow their data science knowledge as well as critical thinking, while mentoring colleagues to provide a meaningful impact on our game.

You will be part of the content team in Candy Crush Soda Saga, working closely with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct analysis, lead analytical efforts, develop analytical methods, and advance the development of analytical methodologies.
  • Identify potential business opportunities, assess their feasibility and viability, translate business needs into technical requirements, analyze A/B tests and scope and build machine learning models and solutions where appropriate.
  • Be the proactive owner of the entire data chain for your projects and investigations, and provide a data-driven perspective to discussions and prioritization within the team.
  • Communicate results to both technical and non-technical colleagues by generating dashboards, reports, and presentations.
  • Mentor other data scientists, conduct code reviews, and provide feedback on analyses.

Skill Requirements:

  • Leadership: The ability to mentor, guide and inspire your colleagues and drive best practices across the company.
  • Stakeholder Management: The ability to recognize dependencies, build relationships and influence others.
  • Business Insight: The ability to understand the problems and issues we want to solve, as well as identify those problems. Defining the right data, analysis or interpretation to be able to give correct recommendations and make the right decisions.
  • Communication: The ability to design good ways of communicating, visualizing, and reporting the insights you find in a clear and unambiguous way.
  • SQL: The ability to write complex SQL queries to analyze our databases with 300+ million players and work with relational database systems.
  • Analytical coding: The ability to use tools such as R or Python for analytical purposes and model building. Experience with building libraries, analytical tools and implementing new statistical models in R or Python.
  • Stats: The ability to understand and apply appropriate statistical and/or machine learning techniques. Deep understanding of probability theory, Bayesian statistics, and Machine Learning techniques.
  • Experience with AB testing.

About Us:

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes:

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful:

Making the World Playful is our mission – it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?



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