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Analytics Lead
at EA
Los Angeles, CA
ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION
EA was founded over 25 years ago by individuals with a deep passion for making games. Many things have changed over the years as the gaming industry—and the company—has expanded immensely, but we are still driven by the same passion for developing, publishing, and distributing the world’s best games. Our history has been one of great success, and our future looks even brighter. Gaming has come a long way from Pac-Man & Space Invaders to modern EA Favourites like Burnout, Battlefield, Mercenaries, Dead Space, Spore, FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed and the world’s most successful game franchise, The Sims. Fuelled by our talented staff at locations right across the Globe we are united in our passion to continue shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Together we can make a difference.
EA Interactive (EAi) is the division of EA with the primary mission of leadership in handheld, social network and online destination site gaming. Comprised of EA Mobile, Chillingo, Pogo.com, Playfish and Hasbro, EAi is the #1 games provider in mobile, smartphones and tablets, the #2 social game provider and #1 casual online gaming site. EALA is home to EA Mobile, the #1 mobile game publisher and the #1 publisher of all apps on the App Store.
Job Title: Lead, Business Analytics
Analytics are a key component of EA Mobile’s future. The analytics team needs to manage and transform massive amounts of data into an actionable, easy to understand form and enforce a data driven culture. The field of analytics is growing rapidly as part of the future of gaming and the entire business world. With mobile analytics you will be part of an even more specialized and dynamic subset of analytics.
Role Overview
The Lead is responsible for maintaining the reporting suite (dashboard, automated reports, etc) that the organization obtains data from. They will maintain these products and tools and work with technical cross functional teams to fix and upgrade these tools. The Lead will audit the tools to ensure data is being processed properly (avoid “Garbage in, Garbage out”). They will need to constantly optimize user experience of the tools as this is key to consuming and using more data to improve the business. The Analytics Strategy Lead will analyze feedback from the organization and improve the reporting suite, metrics, KPIs, and reports.
The Lead will need to monitor the usage of the reporting suite and essentially be the product manager of a heavily used and scrutinized set of tools. They will work with demanding customers and keep pace with a very fast moving mobile industry. They will manage the research requests for the product, engineering and infrastructure groups and make sure work is assigned to analysts accordingly and completed in a timely fashion. They will also need to perform research projects and analyses as well and get a deep understanding of the data they will be building tools for.
The Analytics Lead will also help teams get integrated with their reporting and data tools and help them utilize their data as needed.
What skills does EA look for???
The Lead must have good analytics skills and background
Key Skills include:
- Excellent analysis, presentation, and communication skills
- Willingness to be a teacher and educate
- Organized, efficient, and can manage multiple projects
- Ability to conceptualize, plan, and describe a realistic, functional product
- Ability to enforce a data driven vision
- Ability to manage data tools
- Knowledge of SQL (specifically to write queries and understand data schema) a plus
- Experience with Business Intelligence platforms a plus
- Experience with Analytics tools a plus
- Knowledge of games and the games industry a plus
EA was founded over 25 years ago by individuals with a deep passion for making games. Many things have changed over the years as the gaming industry—and the company—has expanded immensely, but we are still driven by the same passion for developing, publishing, and distributing the world’s best games. Our history has been one of great success, and our future looks even brighter. Gaming has come a long way from Pac-Man & Space Invaders to modern EA Favourites like Burnout, Battlefield, Mercenaries, Dead Space, Spore, FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed and the world’s most successful game franchise, The Sims. Fuelled by our talented staff at locations right across the Globe we are united in our passion to continue shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Together we can make a difference.
EA Interactive (EAi) is the division of EA with the primary mission of leadership in handheld, social network and online destination site gaming. Comprised of EA Mobile, Chillingo, Pogo.com, Playfish and Hasbro, EAi is the #1 games provider in mobile, smartphones and tablets, the #2 social game provider and #1 casual online gaming site. EALA is home to EA Mobile, the #1 mobile game publisher and the #1 publisher of all apps on the App Store.
Job Title: Lead, Business Analytics
Analytics are a key component of EA Mobile’s future. The analytics team needs to manage and transform massive amounts of data into an actionable, easy to understand form and enforce a data driven culture. The field of analytics is growing rapidly as part of the future of gaming and the entire business world. With mobile analytics you will be part of an even more specialized and dynamic subset of analytics.
Role Overview
The Lead is responsible for maintaining the reporting suite (dashboard, automated reports, etc) that the organization obtains data from. They will maintain these products and tools and work with technical cross functional teams to fix and upgrade these tools. The Lead will audit the tools to ensure data is being processed properly (avoid “Garbage in, Garbage out”). They will need to constantly optimize user experience of the tools as this is key to consuming and using more data to improve the business. The Analytics Strategy Lead will analyze feedback from the organization and improve the reporting suite, metrics, KPIs, and reports.
The Lead will need to monitor the usage of the reporting suite and essentially be the product manager of a heavily used and scrutinized set of tools. They will work with demanding customers and keep pace with a very fast moving mobile industry. They will manage the research requests for the product, engineering and infrastructure groups and make sure work is assigned to analysts accordingly and completed in a timely fashion. They will also need to perform research projects and analyses as well and get a deep understanding of the data they will be building tools for.
The Analytics Lead will also help teams get integrated with their reporting and data tools and help them utilize their data as needed.
What skills does EA look for???
The Lead must have good analytics skills and background
Key Skills include:
- Excellent analysis, presentation, and communication skills
- Willingness to be a teacher and educate
- Organized, efficient, and can manage multiple projects
- Ability to conceptualize, plan, and describe a realistic, functional product
- Ability to enforce a data driven vision
- Ability to manage data tools
- Knowledge of SQL (specifically to write queries and understand data schema) a plus
- Experience with Business Intelligence platforms a plus
- Experience with Analytics tools a plus
- Knowledge of games and the games industry a plus