Data Scientist 3 - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Zynga

Zynga

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Careers Category:
Other

Careers location:
Bengaluru, India

Connected Worker Type:
Connected

Requisition Id:
R_111219

Why Zynga

Zynga India:

Zynga India is Zynga's largest studio outside USA with 500+ people and growing rapidly.

It manages some of Zynga's biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres.

The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The Zynga India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it.

Studio I expects continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

Video link Zynga India:

***Zynga - India Studio

About the team

Zynga's data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games.

Here's where you would come in: identify and formalize problems to understand user behavior. Create systems and analyses to derive insights that change the studio's world view. Be innovative, be creative, use every bit of that key commodity - data. Millions of people play Zynga games every day, so our data is tremendously rich and we have a lot of it

We will rely on you to communicate your findings to your peers - both technical and non-technical. Your solutions to difficult problems will need to be demonstrably impactful, visual and maintainable. You will work with our game teams to put your models into production.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Game Designers, and Engineers to deliver business impact, changing current practices in line with new findings and insights.

Responsibilities:

Work with large amounts of data to find opportunities to improve the experience that Zynga provides to its players
Define analytics and data science roadmap, balancing actionable insights to substantially improve core game metrics
Drive and empower game studio to make quantitatively informed, evidence based decisions
Work closely with game team to design, test, verify and implement machine learning models with Zynga's games that impact millions of users. Machine learning models may include but not limited to churn prediction, clustering/segmentation, forecasting, user LTV, fraud detection, and / or reinforcement learning
Design and evaluate novel scalable approaches to experimentation

Required Skills and Experience:

B.E. or B.Tech. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field; Masters, MBA or PhD preferred
7+ years of work experience in data science or analytics role
Strong experience in SQL; Fluent programming in Python; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau, or QlikView
Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: statistics, experimental design, machine learning, data mining, predictive modeling, deep learning
Experience in analyzing large datasets, preferably in a Hadoop or Spark environment, and deploying production ready systems at scale
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to work effectively in a fastpaced environment with changing priorities
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, analysts, and marketing to deliver unambiguous business impact
Strong passion for gaming

What We Offer You

Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games.
Create nextgen games that will be played and loved by millions of players around the world.
Work in a collaborative team that invests in your development and growth onthejob.
Competitive salary, bonus plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
20 days annual leave + company holidays
Extended medical coverage that includes OPD, dental, vision and telehealth
Group Life, Disability and Critical Illness insurance
Equitable Childcare facilities for all employees
Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
Family planning and nurturing support programs
Comprehensive leave options and flexible working hours to ensure work life balance.
Keep your health on track with our wellbeing programs covering fitness expenses and complimentary meals served around the clock.
Employee Assistance Programs
Around the year employee events and casual dress every single day
A diverse team of friendly, fun and supportive coworkers to work with and, impact millions of daily players.
Reengage with your special interest by being a part of our employee resource groups that connect