Amazon Games
is hiring
Senior Data Analyst, Games
About Our Company
At Amazon Games, our mission is to be the most player and developer-obsessed company in gaming. We’re supported by Amazon to pursue bold creative visions, ‘find the fun’ in our products, ship only when ready, and create extraordinary growth opportunities globally and across all platforms.
We have one of the most exciting and daring roadmaps in the industry. We are actively developing and publishing a portfolio of original IP and high-ambition games we hope players love and play for years to come. We aspire to create compelling destinations to discover new games and in-game content. With Prime Gaming, Twitch, Amazon Retail, Prime Video, Game Growth and more, we’re inventing within an incredible sandbox to connect players and developers to the games and communities they’ll love and extend in-game experiences in new and thrilling ways.
In short, we consider ourselves upstarts, dedicated to the long game and more than willing to take risks along the way. We cultivate a creative, come-as-you-are environment around our people to enable their best work, ensure all are heard and celebrated, and enable ownership over a culture that ultimately belongs to them. Their story is the story of Amazon Games. From engineers to artists, development managers to designers, product managers to program managers, our teams create games, products, and services as varied as we are. We invite those interested in being part of something new to explore our openings and join us.
Job Description & Responsibilities
This position location may be flexible depending on candidate requirements.
Amazon is all-in on games, and our mission is to be the most customer-obsessed company in the games industry. At Amazon Games, we’re creating compelling games like New World, a sandbox MMO set on a supernatural continent, as well as several - as of yet - undisclosed titles. Amazon Games is also delivering great game benefits to Prime members each month via Prime Gaming, and providing game developers of all sizes with the tools they need to succeed with Amazon Game Tech
Amazon Games is looking for an experienced Lead Game Data Analyst to join our team in bringing our live operations games to market and in developing and growing business opportunities for Amazon.
As a Game Data Business Intelligence Engineer on our team, you will provide insight for and drive key business and game initiatives. You will work closely with product manager, game designers, and leadership to analyze and find solutions to modern gaming challenges.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ Years of experience in analytics or related field
- 7+ Years of SQL experience
- 5+ Years of experience in gaming analytics
- 3+ Years of working on live-operations games
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced SQL skills
- Advanced data visualization skills
- Expertise in data modeling
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience with theory and practice of predictive analytics, machine Learning, or econometrics models
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python)
- Clear, concise, accurate communication (both verbal and written) with audiences of varying technical abilities and business contexts
- Passion for gaming
What we offer
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.