Business Analyst (Game Data Analyst)
The Job
Join our Live Ops team as a Business Analyst and help shape how data drives decisions across our live mobile games. You’ll work closely with Product, Monetization, Production, and Design leadership to turn game data into clear, actionable insights that improve retention, engagement, monetization, and live-ops performance.
This is a product-embedded role with ownership at its core. You won’t just respond to ad-hoc requests, you’ll help prioritize analytics work, maintain an analytics backlog, and ensure insights translate directly into business decisions. Speed, judgment, and clarity matter.
The Team
Our Live Ops team is responsible for the ongoing success of ATA’s live games portfolio. Some of our games have over 100,000 dedicated players, with player-driven trade economies and passionate communities. We operate in a fast-paced live environment where seasonal events, content beats, and revenue moments require rapid, high-quality analysis and strong decision support.
We’ve invested in self-serve analytics infrastructure (BigQuery and Looker). This role turns that capability into measurable outcomes. You’ll report to the Director of Product – Live Ops and serve as the dedicated analytics partner for the team.
What You’ll Work On
Analytics Ownership & Intake
- Own analytics request intake, scoping, prioritization, and delivery.
- Maintain and manage an analytics backlog, including scoping, re-prioritization and pushback when needed.
- Act as the central point of context for analytics work across teams.
- Define and uphold analytics standards and conventions.
Insight Generation & Decision Support
- Translate game, monetization, and operational data into clear recommendations tied to business impact.
- Produce dashboards, analyses, and executive-ready summaries that inform live-ops tuning, event strategy, monetization planning, and risk assessment.
- Partner with Product leadership on quarterly planning, forecasting, and post-event analysis using repeatable frameworks.
- Clearly articulate implications, trade-offs, and recommended next steps.
Dashboarding & Reporting
- Transition exploratory BigQuery and Google Sheets analyses into durable, standardized Looker dashboards.
- Ensure dashboards are reliable, documented, and aligned with decision-making workflows.
- Improve reporting clarity and reduce signal-to-noise across Leviathan.
Proactive Monitoring & Live Ops Support
- Set up manual and automated alerts to detect KPI anomalies and emerging risks.
- Support live-ops teams during major events, sales, and incidents with rapid analysis.
- Contribute to analytics-driven playbooks for recurring scenarios (e.g., major events, retention drops, revenue risk).
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Collaborate with Product, Monetization, Production, Design, and Engineering to align on goals and constraints.
- Challenge assumptions, validate hypotheses, and influence prioritization through data.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and workflow efficiency.
Who You Are
You’re an experienced analyst who understands mobile free-to-play games and thrives in an embedded product environment.
You’re comfortable managing competing priorities, working asynchronously, and delivering insight quickly under time pressure. You focus on the right questions, not exhaustive exploration, and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
Must-Have Skills and Experience
- 3–5 years of experience in game analytics, live-ops analytics, product analytics, or a similar embedded role.
- Strong understanding of F2P KPIs (retention, ARPDAU, payer conversion, LTV, event impact).
- Experience working with datasets, preferred high proficiency in SQL (BigQuery or equivalent)
- Experience building and maintaining dashboards in Looker or comparable BI platforms.
- Solid statistical reasoning and analytical judgment.
- Ability to work asynchronously, manage competing priorities, and deliver insights quickly under time pressure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly to non-technical audiences
Location:
Remote within British Columbia, Canada.
We’re building a distributed team across the province, work from anywhere in BC! We’ll provide the equipment you need, and support setting up your home workspace. We have a flexible work schedule, three weeks of vacation, flexible sick days, and a generous health benefits package. For candidates located in British Columbia: At A Thinking Ape, we believe in fairness and pay transparency. That’s why we offer a set salary for each level, ensuring that all employees in the same role are compensated equitably, regardless of negotiation skills or background. This means you’ll know exactly what to expect from the start, without the stress of back-and-forth negotiations. For candidates located in British Columbia, the salary is CAD $95,000 for Intermediate or CAD $118,000 for Senior, reflecting our commitment to competitive and fair pay.
What’s in it for you
At ATA, you’re offered a flexible, safe, inclusive environment in which you have the autonomy to do your best work, surrounded by a strong team and with the encouragement of supportive leadership that doesn’t just care what you’re doing, but how you’re doing. You’re trusted, respected, listened to, cared for and valued. You take on thought-provoking projects and tackle fun problems alongside people who are equally invested in making meaningful contributions and seeing new ideas come to life. You know how your work aligns with the company’s goals. Your career is given the space and resources to progress. You accomplish things that make you proud. You are compensated competitively, your health and well-being are top priorities and you enjoy plenty of perks. At A Thinking Ape, we believe curiosity is a superpower, we make things people truly want, and we pursue gritty ambition with kindness, care, and radical alignment to growth—by thinking, acting, measuring, repeating, over-communicating, and never forgetting to play. You don’t just work for ATA, you are an integral part of ATA.
Our commitment to inclusion
We build communities. To do this to the best of our abilities, we need a workforce that reflects the diverse player communities we serve. We believe a variety of perspectives and experiences allows us to make better decisions and understand the needs of our players. We work hard to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and feel like they belong at ATA.
Please consider applying even if you don't meet every qualification and let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.
See our careers page or our short video to learn more about who we are and why you should join our team.