We're looking for an enthusiastic Analytics Manager to join our Central Data Team and guide our central analytics sub-craft. In this hybrid player-coach role, you'll be the heart of our data strategy, helping our studio and central teams understand their data needs while staying close to the craft you love. You'll directly support and mentor a wonderful team of six analysts, including a trainee, fostering a welcoming space where everyone can learn and grow together.
As a key strategic partner, you'll connect closely with our games-as-a-service platform (Beacon), our direct-to-consumer team, and our user acquisition tooling teams. Together, you'll help shape our business unit planning and turn complex data into clear, compassionate insights that support our internal game teams. If you love nurturing talent just as much as you enjoy diving into hands-on data models, you'll feel right at home with us.
You will have impact and fun at work by:
Supporting, coaching, and growing a talented team of six data analysts through trust and open communication.
Collaborating with high-level teams across UA, Game Teams, Ads, and Finance to share actionable strategies.
Balancing your time between guiding your team and working hands-on with your own data analyses and models.
Connecting our technical data engineering and ML teams with business friends to help our studios thrive.
Encouraging a forward-thinking culture that explores how AI tools and automation can make our daily workflows smoother.
Participating in business unit planning to deeply understand and care for the analytics needs of our games.
Experience and skills we are looking for:
Leadership experience with a genuine passion for mentoring people and building healthy, collaborative team cultures.
Strong professional experience working hands-on as a Data Analyst.
Excellent SQL skills and comfort using Python for data analysis, especially with libraries like pandas or numpy.
Great data literacy and experience building clear, helpful dashboards within cloud data environments like AWS.
A degree in a quantitative field (like Math, Computer Science, or Economics) or a similar foundation built through self-learning.
A curious mindset with an eagerness to integrate helpful AI tools into your daily workflows.
Experience in data analytics within the mobile free-to-play gaming space.
A good understanding of Ads and User Acquisition (UA) analytics.
It would be nice if you also have the following skills:
Skills Required
- Leadership experience mentoring and building collaborative team cultures
- Strong professional experience working hands-on as a Data Analyst
- Excellent SQL skills
- Comfort using Python for data analysis (pandas, numpy)
- Experience building clear dashboards within cloud data environments (AWS)
- Degree in a quantitative field or equivalent foundation via self-learning
- Curious mindset with eagerness to integrate helpful AI tools into workflows
- Experience in mobile free-to-play game analytics
- Understanding of Ads and User Acquisition (UA) analytics
What We Do
Rovio Entertainment Ltd. is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, Sega Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of Sega
