Data Analytics Lead

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Warsaw, Warszawa, Masovian
Senior level
Gaming
The Role
The Data Analytics Lead will oversee the analytics team, ensuring data-informed insights drive game development. Responsibilities include managing data projects, mentoring staff, collaborating with various teams, synthesizing insights into recommendations, and advocating for data-driven decision-making.
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Company Description

To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social media and check out our YouTube channel where we share behind-the-scenes insights and stories direct from our team members!

Job Description

We are seeking a Data Analytics Lead to oversee and evolve our in-house data analytics team supporting our game franchises. As a Data Analytics Lead, you will spearhead our efforts to keep data-informed insights at the core of our game development process. Your leadership will ensure that our design and development decisions are informed by robust and strategic data analysis. You will collaborate with product managers, data analysts, data scientists, UX designers, game designers, developers, and studio leaders to champion data analytics that tells compelling stories about our players and their experience while interacting with our games. If you are ready to lead and inspire a team in shaping the future of our iconic franchises, we encourage you to apply.

Daily Responsibilities

  • Oversee and contribute to the creation and execution of comprehensive data insights plans across multiple parallel game projects.
  • Manage and mentor a team of data analysts and data scientists, setting clear goals and ensuring high-quality analytical output.
  • Coordinate with various development teams to integrate data analytics at multiple stages of the product development cycle.
  • Synthesise data insights into strategic recommendations that drive design and development decisions.
  • Ensure data analytics methods and practices are innovative, efficient, and aligned with industry standards.
  • Lead the prioritisation of analytics projects based on development needs and resource availability.
  • Represent data insights to executive stakeholders, providing actionable recommendations and advocating for data-informed decision-making principles.

Qualifications

Must have

  • 7+ years of relevant experience in data analytics within the game development or similar industry.
  • 2+ years of experience in team management and leadership roles.
  • Proficiency in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methodologies.
  • Proven strong statistical skills and hands-on experience with ML techniques.
  • Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to build and maintain relationships across all levels of an organisation.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate data insights into actionable design and development strategies; ability to elevate data maturity across various business units.

Other relevant qualifications

  • In-depth understanding of the game development cycle and experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Deep understanding of game design concepts and an innovative mindset to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries of data analytics.
  • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
  • Strong business acumen with a thorough understanding of the gaming industry.
  • Proficiency in technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, Looker BI, Python, and dbt / Dataform.
  • MSc or PhD degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.

Additional Information

Working mode

  • Office-First: working primarily from the Warsaw office for a minimum of 3 days per week.

Perks & Professional Growth

  • Flexible working hours — start your workday anytime between 8:00 and 10:00 AM.
  • A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
  • Trainings, lectures and courses — internal workshops, external training for each employee, ‘Meet a star’ events, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
  • Merch — gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!

Health & Well-being

  • Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.
  • Psychological care — free mental health support and various well-being webinars.
  • Multisport card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.

Social Activities & Life in the Office

  • Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
  • Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
  • Healthy selections — ​​organic fruit, snacks, muesli, organic honey, vegan milk, and speciality coffee are all at your disposal around the studio. Enjoy!
  • Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.

Head office in Warsaw

  • Sustainable campus with an eco ethos — solar panels provide green energy, 2000 plants and an air-filtering system to help provide clean air, electric car charging points, flower meadows, and more green features in the works.
  • An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support and yoga and healthy spine classes.
  • Car and bike parking spaces.
  • A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
  • No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.

Relocation support

  • Relocation package – flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet, shipping your belongings: it’s all covered. Who said moving countries needs to be complicated?
  • Relocation assistance — processing your legalization operations for you, assistance with finding residence, tax settlements, helping out with translations if needed, and much more — we have dedicated teams to help make sure that all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
  • Polish lessons for foreign employees — and for your spouse or partner, too.
  • Paid Leave — from 20 to 26 days of holiday for every team member per year, paid sick leave, and paid maternity & paternity leave.

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Top Skills

Python
The Company
HQ: Warsaw
958 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

CD PROJEKT RED is home to over 900 game-making professionals from all over the globe. We speak many different languages, but share one love — video games.

The studio’s portfolio largely comprises The Witcher series of role-playing games, including 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which received over 250 Game of the Year awards. In 2020, the studio released its most recent game: Cyberpunk 2077 — a first-person RPG set in a futuristic, high-tech world. Other notable releases include Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and GWENT: The Witcher Card Game — in which players create decks of witcher-world warriors and fight epic card battles with other people around the globe.

Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, CD PROJEKT RED has offices in Kraków and Wrocław, as well as in Los Angeles and Vancouver.

The studio is part of the larger CD PROJEKT S.A. Capital Group, which also includes Spokko, a mobile-focused developer responsible for The Witcher: Monster Slayer, and The Molasses Flood, a development studio in Boston, which is currently working on a game based on one of CD PROJEKT RED’s IPs.

As the company grows, the overall studio mission remains the same: we strive to create the best RPGs in the world, while always keeping gamers’ needs at the core.

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