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As a Senior Marketing Data Scientist - Minecraft on the Player Data and Insights team, you will drive attribution analytics for studio marketing initiatives. You will partner with marketing and engineering teams to establish robust pipelines from database to reporting across channels like paid ads, social media, and in-game messaging. Your daily work involves building and maintaining causal inference frameworks, including Mix Media Modeling, multi-touch attribution, and regression analysis to measure effectiveness. You will automate ROI calculations, productionize output for uplift calculations from A/B tests, and create decision-ready narratives connecting activity to business outcomes. The role requires expertise in managing structured and unstructured data using statistical techniques. This position focuses on solving the challenge of measuring monetization, engagement, and retention across diverse marketing channels to optimize investment and identify future experimentation opportunities within the Minecraft franchise.
Build and maintain causal inference frameworks like MMM and multi-touch attribution to measure marketing effectiveness.
Automate the calculation of ROI and identify optimization opportunities across various channels.
Develop automated pipelines to productionize the output of causal inference and ROI frameworks.
Analyze key drivers of monetization, engagement, and retention across paid ads, social media, and in-game messaging.
Automate uplift calculations from marketing A/B tests to highlight opportunities for future experiments.
Create decision-ready narratives that connect specific activities to Minecraft’s business outcomes.
Partner with engineering and marketing teams to ensure a robust data pipeline from database to reporting.
What we're looking for
A Doctorate in a relevant field and 1+ year of data science experience.
A Master's degree in a relevant field and 3+ years of data science experience.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 5+ years of data science experience.
Equivalent experience to the specified educational and experience requirements.
Experience managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques, and reporting results.
5 years of experience with causal inference frameworks for marketing attribution analysis such as MMM, multi-touch attribution, A/B tests, and regression analysis (preferred).
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