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Senior Data Analyst, Live Games
Big Viking Games
Toronto, CAN
Full Time
Senior
Hybrid
1 weeks ago
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About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior Data Analyst to support live games YoWorld and FishWorld. You will analyze player behavior, build dashboards, and turn data into decisions that improve product, monetization, and player experience.
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Responsibilities
- Analyze player behavior, retention, engagement, monetization, economy health, content performance, and live operations performance across YoWorld and FishWorld
- Conduct quantitative analysis and financial modeling to evaluate feature opportunities, content plans, monetization risks, and strategic product decisions
- Build, maintain, and improve dashboards that translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders across the studio
- Write, maintain, and validate complex SQL workflows to extract, transform, and analyze large scale player and business datasets
- Partner with product, production, live operations, and engineering teams to define telemetry, instrumentation, and data collection requirements
- Investigate behavioral patterns, session habits, player lifecycle trends, wallet dynamics, purchase behavior, content engagement, and churn signals
- Support live operations planning by identifying what content, events, offers, and engagement loops are working, where they are underperforming, and what should be tested next
- Help define KPIs, reporting standards, metric definitions, and repeatable analytics processes
- Present findings clearly and confidently to leadership and cross functional teams
- Turn ambiguous product and business questions into structured analysis, clear recommendations, and decision ready narratives
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate analysis, summarize findings, improve workflows, and reduce repetitive reporting work
- Help improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and trust in the company’s analytics systems
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or related analytical role
- Strong SQL skills with ability to work across complex, multi source data systems
- Experience analyzing large datasets and turning analysis into real product or business decisions
- Hands on experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Sigma, Metabase, or similar
- Comfort with Python, R, or similar scripting languages for data transformation, analysis, automation, or modeling
- Strong understanding of metrics, cohorts, funnels, segmentation, retention, engagement, monetization, and behavioral analysis
- Ability to build dashboards and reports that are clear, useful, and action oriented
- Strong communication skills, with ability to explain complex analysis in plain business language
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and bring structure to ambiguous problems
- Strong attention to detail and a high bar for data accuracy, consistency, and reliability
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or equivalent practical experience
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About Big Viking Games
- Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long standing online game communities.
- Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime.
- We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger data visibility, better decision making, practical AI adoption, smarter live operations, and scalable systems.
About the Role
- Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior Data Analyst to support our live games, including YoWorld and FishWorld.
- This is a hands on analytics role for someone who loves digging into player behavior, building dashboards that tell a clear story, and turning raw data into decisions.
- You will partner closely with leadership, product, production, live operations, finance, and engineering.
- This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable working in a fast moving live service environment.
- This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, with an expectation of working in office three days per week.
What You’ll Do
- Analyze player behavior, retention, engagement, monetization, economy health, content performance, and live operations performance across YoWorld and FishWorld.
- Conduct quantitative analysis and financial modeling to evaluate feature opportunities, content plans, monetization risks, and strategic product decisions.
- Build, maintain, and improve dashboards that translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders across the studio.
- Write, maintain, and validate complex SQL workflows to extract, transform, and analyze large scale player and business datasets.
- Partner with product, production, live operations, and engineering teams to define telemetry, instrumentation, and data collection requirements.
- Investigate behavioral patterns, session habits, player lifecycle trends, wallet dynamics, purchase behavior, content engagement, and churn signals.
- Support live operations planning by identifying what content, events, offers, and engagement loops are working, where they are underperforming, and what should be tested next.
- Help define KPIs, reporting standards, metric definitions, and repeatable analytics processes.
- Present findings clearly and confidently to leadership and cross functional teams.
- Turn ambiguous product and business questions into structured analysis, clear recommendations, and decision ready narratives.
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate analysis, summarize findings, improve workflows, and reduce repetitive reporting work.
- Help improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and trust in the company’s analytics systems.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or a related analytical role.
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to work across complex, multi source data systems.
- Experience analyzing large datasets and turning analysis into real product or business decisions.
- Hands on experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Sigma, Metabase, or similar platforms.
- Comfort with Python, R, or similar scripting languages for data transformation, analysis, automation, or modeling.
- Strong understanding of metrics, cohorts, funnels, segmentation, retention, engagement, monetization, and behavioral analysis.
- Ability to build dashboards and reports that are clear, useful, and action oriented.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex analysis in plain business language.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and bring structure to ambiguous problems.
- Strong attention to detail and a high bar for data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Snowflake or similar modern cloud data platforms.
- Experience in gaming, live service products, social games, casual games, free to play games, virtual worlds, or digital products.
- Experience with game economies, virtual currencies, pricing, bundles, offers, content performance, and player lifecycle analysis.
- Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, statistical analysis, forecasting, or predictive modeling.
- Experience supporting product managers, live operations teams, designers, finance teams, or executive stakeholders.
- Experience with data modeling, dbt, analytics engineering, ETL/ELT workflows, or data quality processes.
- Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms to improve analytics workflows.
- A genuine interest in games, player behavior, social products, and long running online communities.
Compensation & Benefits
- The expected base salary range for this role is CAD 100,000 to CAD 120,000, depending on experience, technical depth, live service experience, and overall fit.
- Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health and Wellness spending account.
- Generous time off policies.
- Opportunity to work on long running live service games with established player communities.
- Exposure to product, live operations, monetization, data strategy, and business decision making.
- A high impact role where your insights can directly influence what we build and how we operate.
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