Staff Business and Product Intelligence Analyst
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AirflowBigQueryPythonSQL
Analytics Manager
Lighthouse Games
full-time
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
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AirflowBigQueryPythonSQL
About the role
- Report to the Director of Live Service and lead analytics for a new AAA IP
- Manage a team of analysts and data engineers to ensure correct data and timely insights
- Lead the analytics roadmap: set priorities, manage backlog, balance speed with data quality
- Define event taxonomies with feature teams and land instrumentation with Engineering
- Maintain core models and self-serve dashboards; keep metric definitions clear and consistent to reduce time to insight
- Partner with Live Services, Game Design, Economy and Monetization to turn analysis into decisions and measured results
- Run forecasting with Monetization and Finance; build outlooks, scenarios and pressure test assumptions
- Lead data governance and privacy efforts: drive compliance across analytics and data pipelines, monitor data quality, manage access and maintain documentation
Requirements
- Significant time spent in games analytics with experience supporting a live title or major live update
- Proven leadership of analysts and data engineers, including setting standards, reviewing work and coaching craft
- Experience with modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow)
- Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., GitLab, GitHub) for managing analytics codebases
- Strong SQL and excellent spreadsheet skills, able to build cohorts, funnels, retention views and sanity-check models
- Experience defining event taxonomies and working with Engineering to land instrumentation in builds
- Clear communication that tells a story with data and explains trade-offs to creative and commercial partners
- Practical approach to experimentation and decision-making when formal tests are not feasible
- (Desirable) Python or R for deeper analysis and forecasting
- (Desirable) Experience with staged rollouts, change control and data quality monitoring
- (Desirable) Background preparing leadership-ready performance and outlook summaries
