Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios are responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms. Include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building, and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, problem solvers, and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, PGA TOUR 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What We Need

The 2K Commercial Strategy team is responsible for video game franchise P&Ls and we are looking for a skilled and passionate Senior Analyst to join us. You’ll work alongside a variety of departments and collaborators to drive the commercial performance of existing and unannounced video game franchises. The wider team includes talented individuals based in Ireland, the UK, and the USA.

This role requires structured problem solving, critical thinking, and data driven decision-making. The ideal candidate collaborates well with colleagues across functions and geographies, working together to achieve ambitious goals. They love to tell a thoughtful story from data and insight with clear “so what’s”, while seeking and incorporating feedback from others. They enjoy working out how to structure ambiguous and difficult problems.

Experience in gaming is not required, however experience working within fast-paced, dynamic consumer-focused technology companies is highly valued.

What You Will Do

To be successful, you will analyse internal and external data to improve our understanding of the business and formulate growth strategies.

You will set and achieve ambitious targets to grow the number of players, their engagement and company revenue over the lifetime of multiple franchises. To do this, you will:

• Identify untapped opportunities to grow revenue by diving deep into player behavior, market trends, and competitive analysis.
• Analyse revenue data to extract compelling and practical business insights, communicating findings and recommendations to various partners.
• Form working relationships across geographies, functions and levels to drive alignment and execution.
• Partner with regional teams to align on goals, analyse performance and develop pricing and sales strategies for our digital and physical products.
• Provide authoritative advice on structuring, executing and measuring test-and-learn experiments to grow engagement and revenue.
• Provide ongoing performance reporting on titles across the company by building and distributing performance reports and dashboards.

• Experience in strategy / management consulting, banking or fast-paced, dynamic, consumer-focused technology companies.
• Excellent influence, persuasion and communication skills. Able to navigate the organization and key partners collaboratively with high emotional intelligence.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to extract key stories from your analyses and present them clearly.
• Experience making presentations and building spreadsheet models.
• Understanding of accounting principles. (e.g. how a P&L works).
• Passionate about trying to understand and tackle difficult business problems.
• Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills.
• Experience tailoring deliverables to stakeholder audiences.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams in different time zones.
• Experience with or willingness to master SQL and data visualization tools.

• Passion for gaming and the player experience is a core driver of our team culture.
• Exposure to a wide range of data and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:

• • Market sizing
  • Competitive analysis
  • Primary research
  • Forecasting (units & revenue)

• Comfortable using SQL and scripting languages (i.e. Python) to extract data and analyze large datasets

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform their essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation.

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