Senior Manager, Analytics - Casual Games

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Analytics Senior Manager - Game Analytics

Zynga is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games, played by tens of millions of people around the world each day. To-date, more than 1 billion people have played our games across Web and mobile, including Farm Ville, Zynga Poker, Words With Friends, Harry Potter:
Puzzles & Spells, Merge Dragons!, Empires & Puzzles, Hit it Rich! Slots, Toy and Toon Blast, and CSR Racing.

The core mission of our game analytics teams is to transform sophisticated player data into clear, actionable business strategies that drive player engagement, retention, and significant revenue growth across your supported titles.

As an Analytics Senior Manager, you will lead and strategically guide the game analytics teams assigned to two of our key live titles:
Harry Potter:
Puzzles & Spells and Words With Friends, helping them provide insights and build data models that enhance the game—striving to provide our players with experiences that surprise and delight.

• Showcase knowledge of game business KPIs and strategy and align the team accordingly.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute expertise in product conceptualization and development.
• Supervise the technical direction of projects, coordinating with production to ensure timely deliveries.
• Enforce standard methodologies in developing all analytics tools and models.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and adherence to data governance policies across all analytics products and reporting.
• Design and evaluate innovative ways to advance analytics at Zynga.
• Work closely with Product leaders to make decisions that increase game engagement, retention, and revenue, ultimately improving the player experience.
• Collaborate with other analytics leads to drive initiatives across single games and the larger organization.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to free up dependencies, find opportunities, and mitigate risks.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure efficient prioritization of tasks.
• Recruit and retain top talent.
• Develop talent and steer career growth within the teams.
• Actively mentor analysts and managers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and sharing of innovative analytical techniques.
• Create a team environment where innovation, passion, and talent thrive.
• Provide feedback and ideas for creative problem-solving.

• Deep product focus and expertise in game business KPIs, with a proven track record to translate data into actionable insights that improve the player experience and the business.
• Demonstrated expertise in a range of analytical techniques, including some or all of the following: machine learning, data mining, predictive modeling, statistics, experimental design, computational analytics/optimization.
• Proficiency with a data visualization or BI platform (e.g., Tableau, Looker, or similar) to build and maintain reporting dashboards.
• Proficiency in both SQL and Python.
• Exceptional presentation, storytelling, and interpersonal…