At Glu Mobile, we build free-to-play mobile games. Our titles include Covet Fashion, Design Home, Deer Hunter, MLB Tap Sports Baseball, and our newest game, Disney Sorcerer's Arena, to name a few. We are seeking a Game Data Analyst that wants to use data to improve player experience.

Role Overview

As a Game Data Analyst, you will consult with studios on how to best optimize their games and understand their players. You will work with our Glunies studio on Disney Sorcerer's Arena to define business problems, develop analytical approaches, and craft recommendations to the studio leadership. You will work with a team to measure performance of events, sales strategies, features, and more to shape the day-to-day live operations. This is a highly visible role with direct impact on the financial success of our game! 

You'll most often:

• Consult with game studios on opportunities to improve the performance of their games, before and after worldwide launch 
• Perform ad-hoc analytical tasks 
• Pull and summarize data with traditional and big data tools 
• Design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments 
• Define game telemetry and metrics for game features 
• Build actionable visualizations of game performance 

You'll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Played mobile games or role-playing games extensively 
• Excitement for working in a data rich environment 
• Enthusiasm for using analytical techniques to answer business problems 
• Experience working in Unix-like and cloud environments 
• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field such as statistics, economics, social science, or related field 

Bonus points for:

• Master’s degree in quantitative field such as statistics, economics, social science, or related field 
• Experience delivering analytics driven consulting 
• Writing re-usable code in dynamic programming languages (such Python) or statistical programming environments (such as R or Julia) 
• Collaborating on code using Git