Head of Analytics

About us:

Arcade is a global mobile game publisher partnering with creative studios to bring fun, high quality titles to players worldwide. We empower game creators to reach global audiences through data-driven publishing, creative excellence, and deep player insights. Our vision is to become a leading global powerhouse in digital entertainment, thus inspiring joy, creativity, and connection through play that challenges conventions and delights audiences everywhere.

We are part of the AI.Tech Group, which also includes Media.net in its portfolio. Media.net is one of the world's largest independent contextual advertising businesses, with one of the industry's most comprehensive advertising technology portfolios.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact in the company, then Arcade is the perfect place for you. Join us, and let's create the future of gaming together!

Role & Responsibilities - What you will do :

As Head of Analytics, you will lead the data strategy for mobile games, turning complex player data into actionable insights for game design, growth, and monetization, requiring strong leadership, deep product/market understanding (especially free-to-play), and expertise in A/B testing, SQL, and data visualization to drive data-driven decisions across teams. You will build and manage analytics platforms, ensure data quality, and work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and engineering to optimize user engagement and revenue.

Your missions will be the following :

Data Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the overall data vision, platform roadmap, and best practices for analysis and reporting.

Player Behavior Analysis: Lead deep dives into large datasets to understand player engagement, retention, and monetization, identifying growth opportunities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to embed data insights into the product lifecycle and roadmap.

Insight Generation & Communication: Translate complex data into clear, concise recommendations and visualizations for all stakeholders (data storytelling).

Platform & Tools Ownership: Oversee internal analytics tools, dashboards, and data pipelines, ensuring scalability and accessibility.

Experimentation & Optimization: Design and analyze A/B tests to validate hypotheses and improve game mechanics and features.

Data Governance: Ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulations like GDPR.

Requirements :

Experience: Proven track record in mobile gaming analytics (free-to-play), with 8+ years in data roles.

Technical Skills: Expert SQL, statistical modeling, A/B testing, data visualization tools (Tableau/Amplitude).

Leadership: Strong ability to manage, mentor, and inspire data teams.

Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the mobile gaming ecosystem, player lifecycle, and monetization strategies (Ads/IAPs).

Mindset: Data-driven, proactive, autonomous, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Skilled communicator in English, able to align cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at different levels.

Our Culture - Who we are :

Arcade is a global team of passionate gamers, creators, and data-driven thinkers shaping the future of mobile entertainment. We move fast, think boldly, and have fun while building games the world loves. Our culture thrives on creativity, collaboration, and accountability. We encourage everyone to take initiative, explore bold ideas, and make a real impact.

Our Core Values

Disruptive | Humble | Ambitious | Entrepreneurial | Accountable | Data-Driven

Benefits :

We at Media.net follow a Total Rewards philosophy that includes a market competitive approach to compensation and benefits, progressive people-centric policies, and recognition programs to bring out the best in you.

Our excellent benefits include everything from comprehensive medical and life insurance to flexible work styles, hours, and leave options.

Our workspaces are comfortable and fun, complete with bean bag chairs, ping pong tables, and all the snacks you can eat.

Our benefits program is also designed to provide an overarching support system that the team can lean on, as and when they need it.

All our teams are expected to work 80% of the time a month from office and utilize 20% remote flexibility based on business needs