Senior Data Analyst

About Electronic Arts (EA)

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Opportunity: Senior Data Analyst

We're hiring a Senior Data Analyst for our Data and Insights team, where our job is to use statistical skills, research methodologies, and data analysis to represent the voice of the player. Reporting to a Director of Analytics, you will partner with developers across multiple ARPG titles in the live service and games as a platform space to provide impactful analysis with relevant takeaways. In addition to working with our studio partners, you will also have opportunities to collaborate and share with other data experts among the larger data analytics community at Electronic Arts (EA). As a team of analysts and researchers, we understand how important teaching, learning, and growth are.

Responsibilities of a Senior Data Analyst

• Lead analytics projects for live-service titles and games as a platform, from concept through to actionable recommendations, ensuring insights directly inform and support launch and ongoing operations.
• Use player data to perform behavioral analysis, clustering, predictive modeling, hypothesis testing, and more, with a focus on understanding engagement with dynamic game worlds, user-generated experiences, and ongoing content releases.
• Partner with designers, product managers, producers, and engineers to establish the data needed from a game to understand how players engage with its features and systems.
• Utilize third-party data to make inferences about the competitive landscape and inform decision-making.
• Engage with peers to develop and share best practices, and establish subject matter expertise within the analytics community.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to monitor important game features and business health, applying automation and insights when relevant.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience applying quantitative or statistical methods to produce insights from data.
• Deep understanding of live-service games, user-generated content, or complex player ecosystems (e.g., Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, or similar).
• Experience presenting technical findings to audiences with varying backgrounds.
• SQL proficiency and the ability to extract data from large data sources with differing structures.
• Proficiency with a statistical analysis tool (such as R or Python) to perform analysis.
• Proficiency with a data visualization tool (such as Looker) to build clear, user-friendly data visualizations, tables, and dashboards.
• Familiarity with version control and reproducible research best practices.

Compensation and Benefits

The ranges listed below are what Electronic Arts (EA) in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

For British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
• SQL
• Python
• R
• Data Visualization
• Live-service Games
• Behavioral Analytics
• Predictive Modeling
• Looker