Product Analyst

As a Product Analyst on Candy Crush Soda Saga, you’ll dive into the world of gameplay and monetisation to uncover insights that shape the future of the game. You’ll play a key role throughout the entire product development cycle — from discovering exciting new opportunities to planning and running live experiments, and analysing results that guide our next big moves.

Working closely with developers, data scientists, operators, and product managers, you’ll help turn data into impactful actions that make Soda even more fun and rewarding for millions of players around the world. This is a chance to blend creativity and analytics, influence how players experience the game, and make a real impact in one of the world’s most loved mobile games.

Key Responsibilities

Data analysis and insights generation

● Conduct thorough data analysis using statistical methods to identify trends, patterns, and insights related to product performance and user behaviour

● Propose data-informed product changes or enhancements to improve user engagement and product performance

● Monitor product KPIs and user engagement metrics, and identify areas for improvement or optimization

● Develop and maintain regular reports and dashboards for tracking product metrics, ensuring accuracy and relevance of the data presented

Experimentation

● Design, implement, and analyse A/B tests to evaluate the impact of changes to the product, features, or user experience, making recommendations based on test outcomes

● Monitor the performance of experiments and provide insights to optimise product features

Opportunity identification

● Support the product/feature maturity and delivery with evaluation, recommendations, and performance reporting

● Identify data-driven opportunities to support PMs

● Work on problems both with and without predefined solutions or operational guidelines

Documentation and knowledge sharing

● Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders across Soda

● Document analytical processes, findings, and recommendations, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible within the team and Soda

Desired requirements

● Hands-on experience with data analysis in a business or product context

● Demonstrable ability to extract, manipulate, and interpret large datasets, identifying trends, and making data-driven recommendations. This includes understanding key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to product success

● Experience working with data using SQL and creating sophisticated queries

● Good understanding of statistics and the ability to interpret these with confidence to support recommendations

● Adept in visualisation tools with experience in information visualisation and presentation

● Experience working closely with product managers in product development, including the application of data analysis to inform the prioritisation of new features or enhancements to existing ones

● Ability to clearly articulate insights and recommendations to stakeholders, including those without a technical background. This includes excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus skills

● Previous experience working with Looker

● Previous experience in mobile gaming

● Practical experience with an analytical programming language such as R or Python for data manipulation

● Knowledge of user research and design thinking principles

● Experience with roadmap planning, understanding how data analysis informs the prioritisation of new features or enhancements to existing ones