Principal Data Analyst - Poker

The role

The Principal Data Analyst on the Zynga Poker Analytics Team helps drive decisions that affect millions of players worldwide. The role covers product strategy, experimentation, business intelligence dashboards and ETL pipelines, and game integrity, including fraud detection.

What you will do

• Work with the Product team to improve revenue, retention and engagement, including A/B testing, insights analysis and dashboards
• Analyze player behavior and partner with game design and consumer insights teams on experience improvements
• Design and maintain ETL pipelines that extract, transform and load data from multiple sources
• Take part in the Analytics Org's AI initiative to improve analytics workflows
• Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data
• Design and maintain dashboards used by game leadership and game designers
• Support the economy team in tuning game features for long-term health
• Play a leading role in designing and improving fraud and bad actor models
• Actively play the games to understand player experience and pain points
• Monitor and maintain tools and models that streamline workflows and personalize the player experience

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or a related quantitative field
• Minimum of 8 years in data science or analytics roles, preferably 6 years in Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics
• Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and ambiguous data
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Demonstrated experience in data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis and machine learning
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, with a keen interest in problem-solving
• Willingness to take ownership of challenges
• Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Ability to explain complex data in simple, actionable terms

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (Masters or PhD)
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau and version control systems such as Git
• Experience or interest in improving analytics processes using LLMs
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or automating recurring analytics workflows
• Familiarity with poker gameplay and terminology
• Familiarity with social casino economies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance coverage
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation of 15 to 25 days per calendar year, or eligibility for the discretionary time off program
• Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
• Paid parental and compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
• 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program

Before you apply

• Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
• The posting states that AI is not used to screen candidates
• Zynga does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps; recruiters contact candidates only from official company email domains

About the company

Zynga is an interactive entertainment company and a label of Take-Two Interactive, founded in 2007 and headquartered in California. Its games, including Zynga Poker, have been downloaded over 6 billion times and reach players in 175+ countries.