Staff Product Data Analyst

Important: This a full-time, hybrid role for Ontario-based employees only. The successful candidate will be required to work from our Toronto office (Queens Quay West) for a minimum of 3 days per week.

Since our humble beginnings in 2011, these two words have driven Big Viking Games to become the successful company it is today. We are focused on making our mark as a next-generation, live operations games company.
We are embarking on an adventure and rely on our team of skilled, enthusiastic, and collaborative Vikings to turn our ship towards a new horizon.

Big Viking Games is looking for a Staff Product Data Analyst to join our team and own analytics for our flagship titles—YoWorld and FishWorld. Embedded within our cross-functional product pods, you’ll partner with Product, Marketing, FP&A and Data to: evaluate player behaviour, refine monetization strategies, and architect predictive models, revenue forecasts, and agentic workflows that automate key live-ops processes.
Reporting into the Product org, this Staff-level role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, hypothesis-driven environment and wants their dashboards, forecasts and automation to directly impact millions of players.
You’ll help drive smarter decisions across roadmap planning, feature development, campaign performance, and in-game economy optimization—while championing first-principles analytics, machine-learning pipelines, and self-serve data automation.

Build and maintain dashboards (DAU, player spend, content performance, pricing effectiveness) for stakeholders across Product, Marketing and Finance.
Analyze player behaviour, campaign performance and monetization trends to inform roadmap and live-ops tuning.
Develop predictive models and forecasting pipelines (e.g. adoption curves, revenue projections, churn risk) using first-principles thinking.
Lead A/B test design, impact analysis and lift measurement for Gem Events, Challenges, Reactivation Offers and new gameplay features (ex. Identify inefficiencies in IAP config, asset throughput and content velocity—recommend and build agentic workflows to streamline campaign planning and delivery.
Collaborate with Data Engineering to operationalize data pipelines, enable self-serve analytics and embed predictive insights into product dashboards.
Evangelize next-gen analytics best practices, mentor junior analysts and shape our data-driven culture.

6+ years in product, business or game analytics—ideally in mobile or live-ops gaming
Expert SQL skills; ability to wrangle messy data into clean, performant datasets
Proficiency in Python or R and experience with ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, etc.)
Hands-on experience building and maintaining BI dashboards (Looker, Tableau, Power BI or similar)
Proven track record applying first-principles thinking to build and validate forecasting and predictive models that drove measurable product or revenue impact (validating assumptions, testing holdout samples, iterating on feature engineering)
Ability to translate complex data insights into concise stories and actionable recommendations

Experience with in-game economy design or IAP configuration
Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks (Optimizely, Firebase, custom tooling)
Background in automated data pipelines and agentic workflow tools
Master’s degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science) or equivalent experience
Competitive salary
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching & participation
Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, and vision) including Health + Wellness spending account
Generous time off policies
Apply now and help steer our next wave of live-ops success!

Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates.