Profesión: Game Research Analyst, Barcelona, Spain

descripción del trabajo:
Gameloft in Barcelona, Spain, is looking for a Game Reasearch Analyst. GAMELOFT, present in 20 countries around Europe, North America and Asia (over 5.000 employees), is a leading international developer and distributor of video games looking for new talent to reinforce its creation teams. Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable me: Minion Rush and Asphalt 8 is hiring! Game Research Analyst Responsibilities: As a Game Research Analyst, your responsibility is to understand how a game works as a service for its customers and how the customers behave in it, identifying and developing the purchase drivers in the game economy context, and providing constant data-driven recommendation on design, tuning and pricing in order to improve game financial performance. To do this, pre-release, you are able to design the virtual products a game will offer, define metrics that allow you to individually measure their impact in a given title, and work closely with the development team to see those design refined and metrics implemented. Once he game is launched, you are able to analyze the collected data and report which are the performing/underperforming aspects of the game economic model, why, and provide solutions to Gameloft management. Your day to day duties include: • Defining the virtual products and their statistics with the development team, and understanding how each of them contributes to the game dynamics. • Identifying the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers. • Balancing the needs for those virtual products, their relation, life cycle, and their streams of availability. • Managing pricing as to create specific price point roles, implement selling strategies for higher price points. • Regularly provide user feedback and stat/price point tuning to development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release. • Analyze the evolution of the metrics you defined to spot both monetization bottlenecks and facilitators, then report suggestions for the game design or strategy accordingly. This is a position requiring a mix of strong economy and marketing knowledge with passion for analytical game design and the emerging free-to-play business model. PROFILE OF EMPLOYEE: SKILLS: -Strong sensitivity to game play and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game. -Strong analytical and formal thinking, able to break problems down in their key variables and identify the relations between them. -Strong econometrics skills, able to model problems into quantitative systems, and draw qualitative conclusions out of quantitative data. -Statistic knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design. -Strong marketing knowledge, able to formulate adequate selling strategies to improve the financial performance. -Understanding of client/server architecture and data collecting pipeline and mining Requirements: • Graduate degree in Economics or BA, preferably specialized in Marketing or Strategic direction. • Fluent written and spoken English, concise writing skills. Mastery of Excel. Advanced understanding of SQL. • Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on smartphones. • Passion for games on all existing formats: board games, card games, sports, paper RPGs, gambling, all genres of videogames with special focus on MMOs and competitive games. • Willing to relocate to Barcelona. Pluses: • Previous experience in econometrics / data mining. • Mastering of UI prototyping tools such as Flash. • Experience in community managing, marketing or product manager. • Previous experience as game designer, social designer or gambling designer English fluent. Permanent contract. Working hours pr. day: 8 (40 pr. week). Motivating salar

Nombre del empleador: Gameloft

Número de teléfono del empleador: +34 93 368 7107

Como aplicar: glbarcelona-jobs@gameloft.com

país: España

región: DANMARK

Duración del contrato: Indefinido

tipo de contrato: Jornada completa

educación requerida: Sin especificar

Fuente de ofertas de trabajo.: AMS, Servicios Públicos de Empleo, Dinamarca