Senior Data Scientist (Gaming)

Location: Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Company

Interactive entertainment company focused on mobile games, including the Candy Crush franchise, with approximately 200 million monthly players and part of Microsoft.

What you will do

• Analyze game difficulty, progression, player behavior, and economy across more than 23,000 levels.
• Design, monitor, and analyze A/B tests for difficulty, features, and economy mechanics.
• Use data, models, and simulations to inform difficulty tuning, balance, boosters, and player outcomes.
• Influence product and game design priorities through clear analytical reasoning and recommendations.
• Define trachirify.global specifications and build data models and dashboards for reliable analysis.
• Communicate experiment results and insights to product managers, game designers, engineers, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong product sense and ability to reason about player experience, engagement, and frustration.
• Strong analytical coding skills in Python or R and excellent SQL skills.
• Experience worhirify.global with large-scale player data, A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical inference.
• Experience combining experimental results with observational analysis.
• Ability to break down complex game systems into analytical problems and define trachirify.global requirements.
• Ability to communicate insights through storytelling, visualization, and data-driven reasoning in cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with simulation, optimization, or algorithmic approaches.
• Experience with game difficulty balancing, progression systems, or virtual economies.
• Background in behavioral psychology, economics, or game theory.
• Experience in the games industry, large-scale consumer products, experimentation platforms, or live-operated products.

Culture & Benefits

• Work closely with product, game design, and engineering on a live mobile game.
• Own a problem space and serve as an analytical voice in product and design discussions.
• Shape gameplay decisions reaching millions of players.
• Collaborate within an international organization with offices across Europe and the United States.