What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Analyst position at VGW?
VGW - Data Analyst
Data & Analytics | San Francisco
About VGW
VGW is a cutting-edge tech company focusing on online gaming. We own and operate several market-leading brands in the largest markets in the world and have about 400 team members globally, all committed to building something amazing, pushing our boundaries and having fun in the process. We've been disrupting online social casino and poker gaming since 2010 and bringing fun and excitement to millions of customers. VGW has a dynamic and happy workplace and we all have huge amounts of energy and a real passion for our products and our players. We couple that with the best of San Francisco culture; a laid-back approach, flexible working hours, great location and even better team.
Role overview
The Data and Analytics team is responsible for leading the data-driven culture at VGW. We work alongside the business to provide analytics that improve and monitor our products to drive business growth. This is an exciting opportunity to combine both your insights and analytical skills with elements of data science and modelling to analyse payments and fraud data to better understand what is driving our position and how to improve it. Using your detailed domain and technical knowledge you will be required to help solve the right business problems, as well as building fast-fail proof-of-concept data products to test new ideas.
We are looking for someone with experience within an analytical insights role. You'll be able to communicate complex concepts in simple ways and help translate business problems in technical solutions. You'll be responsible for:
- Collecting, transforming and interpreting large, complex data sets (Experience with SQL, NoSQL, Spark),
- Provide the team with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business - key metrics (experience in Tableau),
- Building useful data visualisations and communicate a story through data, conducting impact analysis and attribution,
- Writing clear, concise and efficient code (most likely SQL, Python, R, Spark) and collaborating on Git/Github,
- Prioritize for both speed and impact, and aggressively optimize for return by focusing on work output that scales well and is reusable,
- Maintain a culture of high quality output and exceptional customer service: effectively communicate at all levels, ensure that work gets done well and on time, respond effectively to unexpected obstacles and reallocate resources as necessary.
Minimum qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience in data analyst position,
- Degree in one of these fields: mathematics, statistics, computer science, econometrics etc.,
- Experience with coding language, SQL is a must, R or Python
Extra Bonus Points If You Have
- Experience with Data Technologies using AWS Tech Stack, experimental design
- Demonstrated knowledge of forecasting and other predictive analytics techniques,
- Interest in any category: payments/credit card - fraud prevention, casino, poker,
- Passion about online communities and games,
- Gaming experience