Head of Data Driven Insights
Square Enix
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Transforming consumer, market, and business data into strategic advantage and measurable enterprise growth.
- Own the global insights agenda for the publishing organization and act as the company’s primary authority on consumer and player understanding.
- Ensure that the company’s creative and commercial decisions are powered by rigorous insight, predictive intelligence, and scalable data infrastructure.
- Integrate qualitative and quantitative consumer learning, advanced analytics, and enterprise-wide data-driven culture development.
- Elevate insights from a support function to a strategic growth engine, directly contributing to shareholder value.
Requirements
- 12+ years of leadership experience in consumer insights, marketing science, analytics, or business intelligence, with global scope.
- Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams spanning research, forecasting, analytics, and data culture or BI functions.
- Deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative consumer research, including global market segmentation and cultural insight translation.
- Strong command of forecasting methodologies and business planning processes for entertainment or digital content slates.
- Demonstrated track record in applying advanced analytics, statistical modeling, and AI or machine learning to real business outcomes.
- High level financial literacy, including ability to connect insight outputs to P&L impact, investment allocation, ROI, and TSR drivers.
- Practical experience with BI ecosystems and data governance, including data pipelines, data quality standards, and scalable visualization platforms.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with ability to frame complex data into strategic narratives for the CEO, CMO, and leadership committee.
- Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder management capability in Japanese HQ and global matrix environments.
- Fluency in English required; Japanese proficiency strongly preferred.
- Passion for gaming and deep respect for player communities and cultural dynamics in global markets.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
consumer insightsmarketing scienceanalyticsbusiness intelligencequalitative researchquantitative researchforecasting methodologiesstatistical modelingAImachine learning
Soft Skills
leadershipexecutive communicationcross-functional influencestakeholder management