Job Posting Title
Senior Data Scientist
Summary
Big Fish Games is an innovative developer and world-class publisher of a diverse portfolio of casual game franchises, including Big Fish Casino, Gummy Drop, Fairway Solitaire, Jackpot Magic Slots and Cooking Craze. Founded in 2002, we serve millions of players every day and are dedicated to providing players with the opportunity to play, connect, compete and discover anywhere and on any device. We are dedicated to enhancing life through exceptional play.
Our four core beliefs are what makes working at Big Fish Games unique. We believe in a work environment that:• Creates opportunities for impact• Shares a passion for challenge• Cultivates a spirit of creativity• Thrives through collaboration
We are looking for an amazing Senior Data Scientist to support the different Game Studios at BFG. You'll be responsible for running ad-hoc analysis, visualizing data, building machine learning models, and analyzing our day-to-day operations. Successful candidates for this role have strong SQL and statistics skills, are passionate about games, and are clear communicators.
Responsibilities

• Engage with PMs, designers, CRM managers to understand business problems and identify analysis requirements and appropriate analytical solutions
• Develop a deep understanding of available data to drive ad-hoc analysis and answer questions
• Perform statistical analysis, hypothesis testing on experimental data to validate and quantify trends or patterns identified by business
• Evaluate performance of new features and content
• Build machine learning models and work with engineering teams to productionalize model outputs.
• Effectively write, present and communicate research results with recommendations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science or related discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, etc.
• Experience with SQL, R, Python
• Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources including collecting, assembling data, cleansing, formatting, and validation of results
• Experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling tools and underlying algorithms
• 3-8 years in the analytics or data science function
• Data visualization and dash-boarding building experience with Tableau, Looker, or similar tool

• Bonus Points

• Experience in the gaming space
• Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, etc.
• Familiarity with GCP, MySQL, Hadoop, Hive

About Big Fish
Celebrating 20 years delighting players worldwide, Big Fish Games is a mobile games category leader in Casual & Social Casino.
Big Fish operates an extensive portfolio of popular games across genres, including EverMerge, Cooking Craze, Gummy Drop, Big Fish Casino, Jackpot Magic Slots, and Fairway Solitaire. Our core values: All about the player, Talent Unleashed, CollectiveBrilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen.
Why Big Fish?
At Big Fish Games, we make the best games, the best possible way. We show up every day to enchant and delight our players and contribute to building a great company. We think big because that's what our players demand.
Big Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that's why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.
Location
USA - Remote
Job family
Data Science
Contract Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Company
Big Fish Games