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[full-time] Monetization Specialist at PLAOR

2012-04-09 13:53:01

Location: Boston, MA
Description:

Our Monetization Specialist will develop the monetization models for a broad range of player games.

Responsibilities:

Analyze in-game data

Define, create, and implement in-game notifications and other monetization tools to increase conversion, repeat visits, new users, and viral distribution

Optimize pricing and in-game features for conversion and revenue

Manage pricing of virtual goods, balance free vs. paid currency in the game economy

Identify new initiatives and develop promotions to monetize the player base

Analyze app usage trends to identify opportunities to improve engagement and virality

Apply expertise in online, social, and game marketing to create innovative and effective marketing campaigns

This metrics oriented individual must be a top performer, an achiever with a proven track record for success within the gaming industry. Strong analytical skills with an innate ability to gather and interpret data. Utilize a variety of analytical tools, including A/B testing.

The company is PLAOR
PLAOR is an emerging new social games publisher with an exciting and unique catalog.
PLAOR is led by industry visionaries from Xbox, Sony Online, THQ, Playdom, Disney Interactive Group, and EA.
PLAOR offices are in Boston and Southern California.
PLAOR will change the game.

Please submit resumes to jobs@plaor.com

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[full-time] Business Intelligence Director at PLAOR

2012-04-01 06:22:24

Location: Boston MA
Description:

Our Business Intelligence Director will lead monetization and virality.

Responsibilities:

• Create and implement growth strategy
• Ad placement management
• Define monetization triggers
• A/B testing
• Build support team
• Define and manage the optimization of monetization programs via pricing, promotion, and other analytical methods
• Deliver timely, creative, and data driven approaches to monetizing users
• Source and own relationships with external advertising agencies
• Examine and understand player behavior and metrics
• Collaborate with business developers to capture and define business requirements, then define the appropriate data warehouse B1 solution
• Design, build and grow strong analytic frameworks / hands-on with engineering in instrumenting systems and building analytics platforms
• Instrumental in defining and operationalizing all key business metrics around social networking, gaming, and product distribution

This individual must be a top performer, an achiever with a proven track record for success within the gaming industry. Experience working with brand advertisers, and various mobile advertising agencies. Experience building and running operations of large analytics products.

The company is PLAOR

PLAOR is an emerging new social games publisher with an exciting and unique catalog.

PLAOR is led by industry visionaries from Sony Online, THQ, Playdom, Disney Interactive Group, and EA.

PLAOR offices are in Boston and Southern California.

PLAOR will change the game.

Please submit resumes to jobs@plaor.com

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[full-time] Statistical Data Analyst at Turbine, Inc.

2011-12-22 16:00:29

Location: Needham, MA
URL: http://www.wbgamesjobs.com

Description:

Turbine, Inc. seeks a Statistical Data Analyst for the Turbine Marketing department. Working with the Business Intelligence, Digital Publishing, marketing and game studio teams, the Statistical Data Analyst will work to unlock value in the data generated by game play activity. By leveraging in-game behavioral and transactional data this person will develop predictive models to support retention and monetization strategies for designated WB Games titles. This is a multifaceted role that will work as an extension of the Business Intelligence and Digital Publishing teams to understand player behavior and drive measurable results.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
• Specify, develop, execute and evaluate predictive models using advanced statistical techniques.
• Develop segmentation models based on individual game play, subscription and purchase behavior to enable the business to better understand the player base.
• Document and communicate findings to appropriate people and teams.
• Work with the Digital Publishing and Marketing teams to synthesize results into effective marketing programs to achieve desired objectives.
• Develop game-specific analyses and reports using the Business Intelligence platform to complement standard BI reporting.
• Develop and test marketing or merchandising programs and report results including lift and ROI.
• Define and document data capture requirements for new game titles or updates. Work with data warehouse team to define data structures to support analysis.
• Provide data warehouse team with segmentation and scoring rules to leverage segmentation logic throughout the BI platform.
• Select and establish technology platform for statistical analysis.

JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Statistical degree (statistics, mathematics) with advanced degree a plus.
• At least 2+ years experience with quantitative and statistical analysis in an online media company (experience in the gaming or social media space a big plus).
• At least 2 years work experience with statistical and/or data mining software.
• Advanced statistical and data mining background and should be comfortable in all phases of statistical analysis from data exploration and discovery to developing and executing predictive models.
• Experience with one or more BI enterprise tool sets (Cognos8, Microstrategy, etc.).
• Strong SQL skills, preferably in a Vertica or MS SQL Server environment.
• Advanced expertise with a leading statistical (SAS, SPSS, Statistica etc.)
• Solid understanding of OLAP Cubes (MSAS, Cognos Powerplay, TM1) helpful. MDX for querying of OLAP cubes experience is a plus.
• Experience with data mining tools and techniques very helpful (clustering, regression, nearest neighbor, neural networks).
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and systems development lifecycle.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Flexible, able to shift direction with the demands of the business and juggle competing priorities.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, highly creative environment where growth will be achieved largely through creativity, high integrity, reasoned and thoughtful judgment.
• Vertica experience is a big plus.

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[full-time] Lead Analyst at Blue Fang Games

2011-05-02 19:42:19

Location: Waltham, MA
URL: http://www.bluefang.com

Description:

Blue Fang Games (BFG) is the developer of three acclaimed Facebook games – The Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego and Zoo Kingdom. We work in the epicenter of the fastest growing, most dynamic gaming segment – social online games – and all of our team members have the opportunity to make direct and significant contributions to games that millions of people play.

BFG is looking for a Lead Analyst to play an integral role on our team by using their quantitative analytical skills, along with their business acumen, to provide our developers with the data and insights they need to drive the success of our social games. This role at Blue Fang is unique in that we expect the Lead Analyst to be proactive in their analyses (instead of only executing on specific requests) and to work directly with developers and management to make strategic decisions about our games and our overall business.

If you are looking to make an immediate impact, Blue Fang is the place for you!

Responsibilities:
• Measure live performance data of one or more social games and provide analysis that drives game feature priorities and optimizes monetization, virality, retention and engagement.
• Execute research projects as requested, and translate the findings into actionable recommendations.
• Creatively leverage data from multiple sources to generate insights and inform decisions
• Proactively work with Management to anticipate and report short and long-term reporting and analysis needs.
• Meaningfully contribute to the evolution of tools for tracking and understanding user behavior.

Qualifications:
• 2-3 years experience in an analyst position.
• Passion for behavioral economics
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Excel and comfortable using advanced data functions.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL and databases (preferred but not required).
• Ability to interpret data and make actionable recommendations.
• Ability to simplify data and metrics and provide focused reports, presentations, and status updates.
• Attention to detail and follow through.
• Good working knowledge of basic statistics.

If interested please apply here: http://www.bluefang.com/jobs/jobs-analytics/lead-analyst

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