Jam City is an award-winning entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging mobile games that are played by tens of millions of people across the globe. Our teams and studios are located globally in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Berlin, and more. Check out open roles on our team on jamcity.com/careers

Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games.

Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date. The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018. Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.

The Jam City team is known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in key areas including storytelling, data science and audience insights.

Jam City is on the hunt for a Lead Data Analyst to work on one of our highly successful titles, Cookie Jam. You will be responsible for providing both reactive and original insight at a project and studio level.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in their field and have a solid understanding of the F2P market. This candidate applies and seeks out industry knowledge to develop creative approaches to analyzing data and analytics improvements.

Responsibilities

• Apply industry knowledge to come up with analytical approaches to analyze data and make project and studio improvements based on statistical methods.
• Extract complex data sets to understand game metrics in order to inform hypotheses, and create analytical experiments with clear and measurable success goals.
• Create reports summarizing business intelligence data for review by executives and managers; collaborate with senior managers and decision makers to identify and solve a variety of problems to clarify management objectives.
• Lead complex analytics projects applying mathematical approaches such as Multivariable Regression, Clustering, Time Series Forecast, etc.
• Train, manage, and supervise junior analysts on the team.
• Identify and propose improvements on analytics pipeline and operational process.
• Work cross functionally with other teams to provide business insight for decision making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience performing analysis, preferably in the mobile games industry.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; the ability to derive conclusions from data and clearly communicate findings is critical.
• Highly proficient in SQL, must be able to write queries to extract raw data and also load data into Tableau for visualization.
• Skillful in forecasting and manipulating data in Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Master degree in mathematics, computer science, business or related fields strongly preferred.

NICE TO HAVE

• Passion for games and empathetic towards the players.
• Curious, self-driven and thorough in analysis studies.
• Performs well with ambiguous tasks and ability to breakdown complex problems into actionable recommendations.