Principal Data Analyst, Zynga
+ Take-Two Interactive employee stock purchase plan (eligibility criteria applies)
2+ days a week in office
Social game developer
Be an early applicant
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Take-Two Interactive employee stock purchase plan (eligibility criteria applies)
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in analytics or data science roles, ideally in gaming, mobile apps, or digital products
- Strong business sense and product intuition; you understand how to prioritize what matters most
- Solid experience with A/B testing, causal inference, and experimentation design
- Strong background in applied statistics; experience with Bayesian methods is a plus
- Expert proficiency in SQL and Python for data exploration and analysis
- Excellent communication skills, with experience influencing senior stakeholders
- Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated experience working with visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, or similar
- Experience mentoring or leading other analysts is a big plus
- Fast learner, highly meticulous, proactive, and pragmatic
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Data Analyst to join our Analytics team. In this senior role, you’ll be a key partner to our game teams, shaping product strategy and driving impactful data-driven decisions that improve our games, boost player engagement, and fuel business growth
- You’ll combine deep quantitative analysis, business acumen, and technical expertise to uncover insights that matter. As a Principal, you’ll also help elevate analytics standards across the company, mentor analysts, and champion a culture of data-informed decision-making
- Help Shape the Game Strategy: Be a part of the development of data-driven strategies for top games, influencing product roadmaps, features, and monetization
- Player & Product Insights: Partner with cross-functional teams to analyze player behavior, economy trends, and product performance
- Experimentation & Modeling: Design A/B tests and build predictive models (e.g., churn, LTV, segmentation) to assess and forecast outcomes
- Leadership & Communication: Mentor analysts and present insights clearly to senior leadership through compelling storytelling and dashboards
- Data Culture & Infrastructure: Collaborate on improving data tools and pipelines while promoting data literacy and experimentation best practices
Our take
Zynga is a games developer that rode Facebook's platform to success back in the late noughties and early 2010's. It is now one of the biggest casual game producers globally, with a presence across over 170 countries and regions and millions of monthly active users.
Though the company hit a number of roadblocks after its initial success - such as falling stock prices, and numerous calls it was copying other games - its subsequent resurgence is proof of its staying power. It continues to use social media as a distribution channel, and boasts titles such as FarmVille, Merge Dragons! and Words With Friends.
Future success will lie in the company's continued investment in building viral games that people love. It will also need to attune to the social media waves and keep track of where users can be found, as the landscape has become more mobile. In 2024 the company announced it was developing push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application, which will be an interesting addition to its outputs.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2011
$490m
SERIES C
Oct 2010
$6.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $865.5m
Company benefits
- COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
- HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
- FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies
- WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
- FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
- WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
- TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
- RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Pincus
(Chairman & Co-founder)Previously founder and CEO of Freeloader, Supportsoft and Tribe.net, an early social network
Michael Luxton
(Co-founder)Previously an engineer at NetApp
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