Yahoo · 10 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist, Yahoo Games
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$128K/yr - $267K/yr
5+ years expYahoo is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to serve as the strategic analytics expert for Yahoo Games, focusing on player behavior analysis, product strategy, and driving insights for game development and monetization.
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Responsibilities
Analyze and segment player audiences to inform game development, feature prioritization, and live operations strategies
Assess player retention drivers, cross-game engagement patterns, and monetization trends (e.g., in-app purchases, ad revenue)
Design and analyze A/B and multivariate tests on game mechanics, UI features, and content updates
Partner with product managers, game developers, and engineers to instrument gameplay events, develop clean measurement plans, and ensure trusted data capture
Lead definition and harmonization of key game metrics (DAU, MAU, ARPDAU, LTV, churn, etc.), creating single sources of truth for reporting and dashboarding
Build and maintain executive dashboards in Looker, Tableau, or equivalent BI tools, tailored to Yahoo Games leadership
Develop automated alerting in Slack or email for major shifts in core game KPIs
Identify and articulate strategic opportunities, risks, and growth levers—bringing games-specific context to recommendations
Enable self-serve analytics, driving adoption and training on dashboards
Proactively address data quality issues, maintain high standards for dataset documentation, and escalate gaps in reporting
Serve as the data voice in greenlight reviews, live ops syncs, and post-launch retros—distilling complex insights to unlock business value
Qualification
Required
5+ years as a business, product, or data scientist—ideally supporting games, gaming platforms, or entertainment tech
Expert in data storytelling, with a proven track record of supporting game studios or gaming platforms with clear, actionable insights
Highly skilled in SQL and Python for advanced analytics, automation of reporting pipelines, and large-scale data manipulation (GCP/BigQuery/LookML a plus)
Deep experience designing and analyzing controlled experiments in a gaming context (A/B tests on game features, tutorials, progression systems)
Hands-on with executive dashboard creation and metric harmonization for gaming KPIs using tools like Looker, Tableau—bonus if you've built dashboards for games product teams
Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and bias for action, thriving in ambiguous, growth-driven gaming environments
Excellent communicator, able to present findings confidently to game executives, production leads, and studio partners
Track record of defining and evolving player and game-level metrics; driving consensus and adoption within the Games squad
Experience empowering non-analytical stakeholders to self-serve via dashboards, explores, and alerting
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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