Principal/Senior Data Analyst

The role

The Principal Data Analyst will be the analytics owner for Words With Friends Instant. Product, design, and engineering come to this person for data on player behavior, feature health, experimentation, and game strategy.

What you will do

• Analyze long and short-term trends to deliver insights that influence product direction
• Design statistically sound experiments that drive measurable impact
• Maintain dashboards and ETL pipelines to keep the organization informed on game performance
• Collaborate with the Product team to enhance revenue, retention, and engagement metrics, including A/B testing and insights analysis
• Analyze player behavior to understand motivations and preferences, and help turn findings into experience improvements
• Communicate findings and recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders
• Support the team in tuning game features for long-term game and feature health
• Design game telemetry to capture meaningful player interaction data
• Actively play the games to understand the player experience
• Contribute to the Analytics Org's AI initiative using LLMs

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 a Product Data Science or Gaming Analytics team
• Demonstrated experience guiding product teams through complex decisions and dealing with ambiguous data
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Demonstrated experience in 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 like Tableau
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience automating recurring analytics workflows
• Experience in gaming, mobile, or consumer tech industries

Benefits

• World-class benefits package

Before you apply

• Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps
• Recruiters contact candidates only through official Company email domains

About the company

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment and a label of Take-Two Interactive, with games downloaded over 6 billion times. Founded in 2007, it is headquartered in California.