Senior Data Scientist (Gaming)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist (Gaming): Building and optimizing innovative, player-centric solutions by leveraging data, with an accent on owning the lifecycle of data products from inception to deployment. Focus on designing and implementing advanced A/B tests, forecasting, clustering, and ML models to provide actionable decision intelligence and ensuring high quality, scalability, and efficiency in data solutions across departments.

Location: Hybrid in Barcelona, Spain or remote in Spain or Portugal.

Company

hirify.global is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company developing, publishing, and innovating mobile games like Monopoly GO! and Pokémon GO!, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

What you will do

• Partner with Product Managers and Stakeholders to define the data science roadmap and identify high-value opportunities.
• Own the end-to-end process of creating new data products, from inception to productionalization and monitoring.
• Analyze player behavior to understand feature impact on game economy, progression, social dynamics, and sentiment.
• Design and implement A/B tests, forecasting, clustering, and ML models for actionable decision intelligence.
• Provide technical expertise throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring high quality, scalability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product Analytics, Engineering, LiveOps, and Marketing to integrate data solutions for real-world impact.

Requirements

• Outstanding problem-solving skills with a "user-first" mentality.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with BI tools (Looker) and visualization libraries (Plotly, etc.).
• Experience with data transformation at scale using dbt and Airflow.
• Proven track record of deploying data products to production (on GCS, AWS, or Azure) with monitoring/alerting.
• Strong background in statistics, A/B testing methodology, and applying ML/AI to improve business understanding.
• Ability to translate complex methodologies into clear insights for non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Deep love for F2P mobile games and understanding of game loops/economies.
• Familiarity with causal inference, Bayesian statistics, or MLOps platforms.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, predictions using Transformers, or other Deep Learning architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a global team of game lovers developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry.
• Work on Monopoly GO!, one of the world’s biggest mobile games enjoyed by millions.
• Be part of a distinctive tenet-driven culture.
• Opportunity to connect millions of people around the world daily through play.
• Work with a company recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine.