IGaming: If it's iGaming, we know a thing or two. At Light & Wonder, It's all about the games, and our digital team leads the global iGaming market, providing jaw-dropping content and innovative software that powers the world's most successful online gaming providers. Position Summary Performs statistical modeling and analysis of gameplay data for electronic games. Works with production and game design teams to understand data and analysis needs and capture required data from internal and external sources. Monitors the impact of gameplay changes, balance adjustments and feature introductions on usage statistics, player strategies and winning percentages. Aggregates and analyzes player behavior and gameplay data to draw conclusions and make recommendations for changes and additions to improve player experience and game balance. Qualifications Summary Passion for pouring through data and pulling out nuggets of insight for senior audiences to empower them to change what they do? Excited at the chance to be a trail-blazer in a data-rich, digital-based business with billions of rows of untapped data bursting with potential value? Love waking up every day knowing there's a huge variety of opportunities to get your teeth into and realise. Hungry to deliver real impact on overall business performance? Enjoy working directly with decision makers / CXOs and see your ideas come to life? If the answers are yes, then this is the role for you We're searching far and wide for a highly curious, problem solving, critical thinker, with passion for data and insight who will be a key catalyst for our business to become player-insight driven. Whilst being a hands-on role with need for technical expertise, we're looking for a data communicator, not just a data extractor. The successful candidate will be expert at getting their hands dirty with data but also be adept at defining problems, cutting across data and picking out the key numbers audiences need to focus on, with impactful data story telling. Joining the team going through a data transformation provides a unique opportunity to make a big impact and help shape the future direction of the business. The variety of challenges the role will face into, including regular access to exec-level stakeholders, means it offers a fantastic learning curve and career development that will take the new team member on to even greater things in the future. Company Description We're a big business that feels small, with strong values and great culture. We don't do hierarchy - our execs interact with the team directly and encourage team members to take ownership of opportunities and drive change. You'll find plenty of passion and a growth-focused mentality in the office mixed with a lot of fun and camaraderie. In a nutshell, we're an online gaming business that has a massive data asset covering 20M players playing both games we develop and those provided by 3rd parties. Our casino games and technology solutions enable the world's largest gambling companies to optimise player experiences all over the world. With a database capturing >30BN online Casino transactions, our business is lucky to have a broad, yet granular view of how players interact with different games, across the world. This uniquely powerful data asset has huge potential to create significant value internally and externally and is seen by the board as a key strategic growth driver. Role Overview The successful candidate will be the key source of insight into the performance of online casino games. Key responsibilities include: Developing and delivering regular deep dives into new game launch performance, with key takeaways on what factors have driven game success / failure and key learnings. Each delivery will take into account the objective of the new launch, the extent to which the game achieved what we were aiming for and where we see opportunities to improve Collaborating with the Content Team on Quarterly Strategic reviews, highlighting performance trends of our content, changes in player behaviour by market and competitor studio reviews Play a leading role in developing new descriptive and predictive capability based on transaction-level data - we have recently made this granular data available and a key part of this role will be to surface insights from this new data set, shape how we use it and brief the back-end engineering team on how to treat this data to make it easy to productionise insight and reporting Managing data to day relationships with key stakeholders, including our VP of Content, Creative Directors in different markets and Studio teams and get under the skin of how the team operates, key decision points and how data can help them deliver better games for players Scoping bespoke strategic insight projects, with clear problem definition and identified value from solving it, plus managing end-to-end delivery. These will include the need for advanced analytical techniques, such as propensity modelling and regression analysis Creating bespoke dashboards to deliver efficiencies in insight creation and enable non-technical users to access key information Contributing to the thought leadership agenda for capability development roadmap, by building up in-depth knowledge of both the data sources we have access to and how the business operates Experience 3 years Analysis Experience Translating complex data, into simple insights and actionable recommendations Presenting insights back to stakeholders and influencing decisions Delivering complex analytical projects using more advanced techniques Skills Expert SQL coder - efficient query writer with a passion for generating robust numbers quickly Experience with PowerBI Python skills useful but not essential Able to define analytical problems and relevant, robust solutions Clear, impactful, influential presentation skills Ability to manage stakeholders effectively Attributes Brilliant analyst - constantly questioning the as-is and applying critical thinking to all problems / opportunities Creative, capable of thinking around problems and defining innovative solutions Combines high-personal standards with pragmatism to get the job done, breaking projects down into small chunks with an emphasis on getting started and moving, without boiling the ocean Highly numerate and passionate about using data to drive change Natural relationship builder, who quickly builds trust and maintains it through consistent, high quality delivery Results-driven, focused on making an impact and seeing solutions driving change Proactive, self-starter / motivator Takes ownership of deliveries, setting realistic timelines and keeping promises Open communicator - flags issues / concerns, as they arise and keeps stakeholders informed, with good news and bad Confident engaging at different levels of management and with people at different levels of technical understanding Qualifications Educated to degree-level LI-igaming LI-Hybrid