Craft:Data, Analytics & Strategy
Job Description:We are looking for a Product Analyst to join the team working on game difficulty, progression, and economy in Candy Crush Saga. Together with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists, you will help ensure that our 23,000+ levels and game features combine into a balanced, engaging, and evolving player experience.
This is a hands-on analytics role close to the game: you will turn player data into clear answers, dashboards, and recommendations that shape day-to-day product decisions affecting millions of players.
Your role within the Kingdom
- Monitor and report on game difficulty, progression, and economy KPIs, keeping the team informed about how players experience the game
- Analyze player behavior across levels and features to identify friction points, trends, and opportunities
- Design, monitor, and analyze A/B tests related to difficulty, features, and economy
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports that make key metrics accessible and actionable for the team
- Investigate product questions and hypotheses with reliable analysis
- Define tracking specifications for new features so the data needed to understand player behavior is available and reliable
- Present findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy
Skills to create thrills
Product & Player Understanding
- Good product sense with genuine curiosity about player experience, engagement, and frustration
- Ability to translate product questions into concrete analyses and metrics
Analytics
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale behavioral or player data
- Working knowledge of Python or R for analysis
- Experience building dashboards and reports that drive decisions
- Solid understanding of A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical inference
Communication & Collaboration
- Ability to communicate findings through clear visualization and storytelling
- Comfortable working iteratively and cross-functionally with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists
- Pragmatic and organized, able to balance multiple analyses and priorities
Tasty bonus points
- Experience with game analytics, progression systems, or virtual economies
- Experience in the games industry or other large-scale consumer products
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms and live-operated products
- Experience defining event tracking or working with analytics instrumentation
About KingWith 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. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. 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.
