Senior Analytics Manager

Who We Are:

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars™: Hunters, CSR Racing™, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven, Toy Blast™, Two Dots, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog

Position Overview:

The Publishing Analytics team has been charged with supporting performance and measurement insights across our portfolio. We utilize the vast amount of internal and third-party data available to provide reporting, tooling, and automation solutions that elevate the various functions in Zynga’s product organization.

As a senior analytics manager, you will provide team and technical leadership to a group of hardworking leaders, analysts, and data scientists. You will provide support to our publishing organization, the executive team, and game studios. Together with your team, you will propose innovative solutions, prioritize workflows, and coordinate product development and enhancements with our development teams.

What You'll Do:

• Work with large amounts of data to find and lead opportunities to improve the investment efficiency and operational excellence.
• Manage multiple teams of data analysts and scientists to ensure high-quality execution while grooming and growing talent.
• Establish new measurement frameworks for that work for our broad portfolio of games..
• Use our modern tech stack, Redshift, Databricks and PySpark, Airflow, and Tableau to develop innovative tools.
• Technically engage with the analysts, data scientists, and game teams to provide data-driven insights and guidance with your strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Bolster customer trust and build technical knowledge through execution of ad hoc analyses of high business priority.
• Translate functional requirements into technical solutions to business challenges.
• Ability to distill analysis and communicate recommendations effectively for a diverse set of stakeholders including senior executives.
• Collaborate with partner teams to define areas of opportunity and set priorities.
• Supervise the larger technical direction of projects.
• Develop talent and steer career growth within the team.

What You Bring:

• Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: predictive modeling, statistics, experimental design, optimization, data visualization.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, effectively managing communication and expectations to drive successful project outcomes.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills; comfortable explaining technical topics to non-technical users.
• Domain knowledge in marketing, mobile gaming, player behavior, business modeling, and forecasting.
• Strong experience in SQL and Python; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau.
• 7+ years of work experience in data science, machine learning or analytics roles.
• 4+ years of work experience in people management.
• BS in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields; Masters or PhD strongly preferred.

What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

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