Senior Data Scientist | Catalog Games

Craft: Job Description: Your Role Within Our Kingdom

We are looking for a dedicated and creative Sr. Data Scientist to join the Product Development and Experimentation teams in Catalog Games! You will help shape the future of our games through deep data insights that unlock player behaviors and business opportunities. As part of a diverse and talented analytics community, you’ll support multiple teams in creating entertaining, data-driven experiences for millions of players. Working closely with game designers, game leads, developers, and other data scientists, you will define experiments, drive actionable insights, help identify strategic opportunities, and continuously evolve how we understand and enhance our games.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, and present results from A/B tests to inform feature and game development.
• Be the end-to-end owner of the experimental aspects in initiatives.
• Proactively conduct rigorous data explorations and develop models that uncover new opportunities.
• Deliver clear and impactful visualizations and presentations tailored to diverse audiences.
• Ensure data quality and accessibility to support informed decision-making across teams.
• Support the evolution of Catalog Games’ data science methodologies and tooling, and act as a craft role model.
• Collaborate across games to share insights, tools, and learnings that benefit the broader portfolio.
• Systematically break down abstract problems into concrete analytical questions.

Skills to Create Thrills Analytical & Technical

• Strong background in applied statistics, experimentation, and predictive modeling.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL for working with large‑scale, complex datasets (300M+ players).
• Skilled in Python or R for statistical analysis, modeling and automations.
• Deep understanding of statistical methodologies, including A/B testing and experimental design.
• Experience with big data platforms (e.g., GCP/BigQuery, AWS…).
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau).
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience in collaborative programming.

Business & Communication

• Strong business insight: able to frame product questions into structured analyses.
• Effective communicator: present data stories clearly and influence diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborative and strategic mindset: ability to work cross‑functionally and guide decision‑making.

Tasty Bonus Skills

• Experience with mobile game analytics or in‑game advertising.
• Familiarity and interest in agentic workflows (Codex, Claude…)
• Contributions to data science communities or internal capability‑building initiatives.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes Making games is fun—especially with people who share the same passion.

At King, we embrace diversity and believe it leads to more creative solutions and richer game experiences.

If you're excited about data, games, and working in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world‑famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.

Who we are King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead.

We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way.

We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.

Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale.

And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful! Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.