Senior Data Scientist

Data is at the heart of everything we do at Rovio. It enables us to continually improve our games and provide incredible experiences for the millions of users who play our games every day. All of this data is only valuable if it can be used to guide our day to day operations. It is the job of Business Intelligence to turn that raw data into actionable insights for Rovio’s games teams and other business units. The Business intelligence team aims to empower Rovio’s teams with insightful data, and also with relevant tools and models that support decision making.
We are now looking for a Senior Data Scientist, Team Manager, to join our Business Intelligence team in Espoo, Finland. You will join us to expand one of the most successful entertainment brands in the world and enable our thriving teams to create engaging experiences for millions of players using data science.
Your role:
You will work closely with various teams such as User Acquisition, Advertising, and game teams. As a Senior Data Scientist, Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in steering Rovio’s data science activities. You will foresee and plan the modelling projects for the games unit, and lead the implementation of cross-portfolio machine learning projects.
At Rovio we create different types of games that reach to billions of players. This presents a big challenge for data science and an exciting opportunity for creating models with great impact for the Games unit and millions of players. We predict how players will play, retain and spend through time, which is fundamental to the gaming industry. You will apply state-of-the-art data science methods for creating automated decision-making systems for performance marketing activities in the magnitude of millions of euros monthly. Together with our data engineering team, you will prototype and develop scalable solutions that are used to make recommendations for large scale user acquisition and cross-promotion campaigns. In addition to marketing optimization, you will have the chance to work on any and all of the most interesting and high impact analytics challenges faced by Rovio.
The main responsibilities of a Senior Data Scientist are in the following three areas:

• Data
• Tech
• Leadership

Data

• Developing models and algorithms that increase the efficiency in decision making and drive higher ROI
• Designing automated solutions to improve ways of performance marketing and advertising using your statistics, machine learning, and programming skills
• Defining and spreading best analytics practices, methods and processes inside Rovio

Tech

• Testing your ideas and work with data engineers to take your solutions to production
• Working with and guide other team members in data science projects that are of more technical nature
• Creating systematic ways for validating the quality of the models

Leadership

• Providing leadership and support to a team of data scientists
• Coaching team members’ to improve their performance and help them advance in their career development
• Guiding stakeholders in understanding data science concepts (e.g., ML, AI, model selection), utilizing existing data, discovering opportunities and driving data-driven decision making

Who we think will do great in this role has:

• Expert knowledge in data science, machine learning, and statistics(e.g. bayesian modeling, gaussian processes, random forests, boosting trees, neural networks, AB testing)
• Experience in applying data science for the tasks of regression, classification, and forecasting
• Know-how to do feature engineering