Lighthouse Games is a new AAA studio in Leamington Spa. We are defined by our pedigree of talent, and serious ambition to build a new best-in-class game. When you join us at Lighthouse, you will be able to create the best work of your career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative. You will learn from the best, and work along side the future greats of the gaming industry.
Reporting to the Director of Live Service, you’ll build and lead analytics, including data engineering, for a new AAA IP from development through launch and into live operations. Year one is about foundations: KPIs, telemetry and playtest support through Alpha and Beta. After launch, the focus moves to live service performance and economy health. This is primarily an analytics and people leadership role.
Key Duties Include
- Own the analytics strategy by defining the questions, KPIs and frameworks that support product, design and commercial decisions, then translating them into a measurement plan covering telemetry, event taxonomy and data quality
- Build and lead the analytics and data engineering team through hiring, coaching, and setting standards, ways of working and priorities
- Partner with Design, Production and UXR to set hypotheses and success criteria for features and playtests, and evaluate them through telemetry, experiments or other appropriate methods, weighing data alongside player research and design judgement
- Lead player, product and economy analytics across progression, engagement, retention, segmentation, player journeys and economy health
- After launch, own live service analytics (content and event performance, monitoring, forecasting and scenario planning), delivered through dashboards, reporting and self-service
- Represent analytics across Design, Production, Engineering, Product, UXR, and with our publisher’s analytics team, aligning on definitions, reporting, and data governance and privacy
Requirements
- Experience taking a game or digital product through development and launch, including standing up telemetry and KPI frameworks and supporting Alpha/Beta testing. Live operations experience strongly preferred.
- Experience using analytics to shape game design, product or live service decisions
- A track record of building or growing a team of analysts and data engineers, including hiring, coaching and setting standards
- Strong, hands-on SQL, plus Python or R
- Solid statistical grounding: experimental design, inference, forecasting and scenario modelling, sound judgement when formal tests aren’t feasible, and the pragmatism to know when a quick answer serves the decision better than a deep one
- Clear communication that turns analysis into recommendations, honesty about uncertainty, and explaining trade-offs to creative and commercial partners
Desirable
- Economy or monetisation analytics in a live service game
- Experience working with a publisher’s analytics or data team
- Experience on a AAA title, large scale live game or an online platform
Benefits
- 25 Days Holiday, plus 1 day for your birthday
- Studio Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Private Pension Scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Health and Well-Being Benefits
- Dental Care
- Optical treatments
- Mental Health Support
Skills Required
- Experience owning analytics for a live product at meaningful scale in games, digital products, or platforms with an ongoing live cadence
- Experience leading analysts and data engineers, including setting standards, reviewing work, and coaching
- Strong hands-on SQL skills, including writing and reviewing complex queries
- Ability to build and defend statistically rigorous forecast or scenario models
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain data, recommendations, and trade-offs to creative and commercial partners
- Practical approach to experimentation and decision-making when formal tests are not feasible
What We Do
Lighthouse is a game development company, and our ambition is to create a studio that embodies what it means to be at the bleeding edge of video game development – a studio that enables developers to create the best work of their career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative. We are a home for ambitious developers who value collaboration and possess a determination to deliver quality. We want talent to flourish in our state-of-the-art studio and welcome experienced developers with a passion for mentoring. Our studio is a great environment for new talent to grow and develop their careers because they will be part of an outstanding studio with a long, bright future, where they can learn from the best. As a growing AAA development studio, we are actively searching for talent and by joining Lighthouse you will work with some of the leading lights in AAA game development, who will support you in creating the best work of your career in an environment which fosters openness and respect.
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