Principal Data Analyst

About the role

Zynga's data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games.

What you'll do

• Define and shape the analytics strategy for one or more games, aligning analytical investment with long-term business objectives
• Independently identify high-impact, ambiguous problems and drive them from conception to measurable business outcomes — influencing roadmaps and investment decisions at…
• Implement novel analytical methodologies (statistical modelling, ML, causal inference, etc.) and advocate for their adoption across the broader analytics organization
• Own architecture-level decisions on modelling approaches, data infrastructure, or measurement frameworks that other teams and analysts will build on
• Deliver analytics and data science projects that substantially move core game metrics, setting the standard for rigor, creativity, and business impact

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Python
• Tableau
• Looker
• Statistics
• Machine learning
• MBA or B.Sc or PhD or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Dashboarding
• Deep learning