This is an entry-level trainee role and does not require any previous industry experience. The ideal candidate is someone looking to build a career as a data analyst in the games or related industries. You are passionate about the use of data to enhance the player experience and optimise games. As we all work from home, you need to be great at communication and self disciplined.
Your role will be to gather and build reports to display data from games that we work with, as well as support the teams with other tasks as required. As we all work from home, you need to be great at communication and self-disciplined.
You will be working from home, but you must be able to come to London or other UK locations, maximum once a month, and depending how far away you live, you may need to be available to stay overnight.
This role is intended as an opportunity for someone who is seeking to enter the games industry, or has already started their career in the industry. As the role is entry level and includes training, it will support training in the specific role as well as support for personal development and will enable the candidate to expand their skills in their areas of interest.
Your responsibilities will be varied, but will include:
- Gathering data from various sources, for example game platform attribution data, gameplay data, sentiment analysis data
- Building reports from the data in excel
- Creating reports in Power Bi
- Creating funnels
- Creating pivot tables
- Working across broader areas of the business, with the goal of understanding the issues that our business and games, which can be better understood with data
- General support of the teams and directors, including admin tasks
- Reporting to the CSO, and working with various departments to support them with data
You must:
- Have minimum a bachelors degree in mathematics or related subject, or equivalent
- Be able to script using python, to a moderate level
- Enjoy gathering and analysing data, and making spreadsheets
- Have a interest in the use of data in games
- Know how to use formulas in Excel
- Be a fast learner and not afraid to ask for help
- Be happy to turn your hand to any task
- Have exceptional attention to detail
- Be very organised
- Have good communication skills, both written and oral
- Have ability to research and investigate
- Be very proactive, good at problem solving and decision making
It would be great if you also have some of the following:
- Have some understanding of creating graphs and other visualisations in tools including (but not limited to) excel
- Know how to use pivot tables in Excel
- Knowledge of Power Bi and/or Tableau (or equivalent)
- Ability to write reports
- Knowledge and passion about games
THE DETAILS
- Salary: £18k-22k
- Start date: ASAP
- Hours: Full time (approx. 37 hours per week)
- Location: Work from home
- Please note that you must be UK resident