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Data, Analytics & StrategyJob Description:
We are looking for a Product Analyst to join the team working on game difficulty, progression, and economy in Candy Crush Saga. Together with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists, you will help ensure that our 23,000+ levels and game features combine into a balanced, engaging, and evolving player experience.
This is a hands-on analytics role close to the game: you will turn player data into clear answers, dashboards, and recommendations that shape day-to-day product decisions affecting millions of players.
Your role within the Kingdom
- Monitor and report on game difficulty, progression, and economy KPIs, keeping the team informed about how players experience the game
- Analyze player behavior across levels and features to identify friction points, trends, and opportunities
- Design, monitor, and analyze A/B tests related to difficulty, features, and economy
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports that make key metrics accessible and actionable for the team
- Investigate product questions and hypotheses with reliable analysis
- Define tracking specifications for new features so the data needed to understand player behavior is available and reliable
- Present findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy
Product & Player Understanding
- Good product sense with genuine curiosity about player experience, engagement, and frustration
- Ability to translate product questions into concrete analyses and metrics
Analytics
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale behavioral or player data
- Working knowledge of Python or R for analysis
- Experience building dashboards and reports that drive decisions
- Solid understanding of A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical inference
Communication & Collaboration
- Ability to communicate findings through clear visualization and storytelling
- Comfortable working iteratively and cross-functionally with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists
- Pragmatic and organized, able to balance multiple analyses and priorities
- Experience with game analytics, progression systems, or virtual economies
- Experience in the games industry or other large-scale consumer products
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms and live-operated products
- Experience defining event tracking or working with analytics instrumentation
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.
Skills Required
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale behavioral or player data
- Working knowledge of Python or R for analysis
- Experience building dashboards and reports that drive decisions
- Understanding of A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical inference
- Ability to translate product questions into concrete analyses and metrics
- Ability to communicate findings through clear visualization and storytelling
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists
- Experience with game analytics, progression systems, or virtual economies
- Experience in the games industry or other large-scale consumer products
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms and live-operated products
- Experience defining event tracking or working with analytics instrumentation
King Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about King and has not been reviewed or approved by King.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, floating holidays, sick time, a winter holiday break, and substantial paid leaves for life events are part of the package. Offerings are localized by country while maintaining generous time-away support.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, preventive care coverage, company HSA/HRA contributions, and mental‑health resources are highlighted. Access is tailored to local systems and includes fitness program options.
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Parental & Family Support — Enhanced leave for all parents and family‑building support such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement are emphasized. Additional paid compassion and bereavement leaves extend support for caregiving needs.
King Insights
What We Do
King is a leading interactive entertainment company in the mobile world. We create unforgettable games that are played around the world every single day, like Candy Crush, our sweet phenomenon. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. which acquired King in February 2016.
