Analyst, Commercial Strategy – NBA 2K

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Analyst, Commercial Strategy – NBA 2K

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

What We Need

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Analyst to join us in the NBA 2K Growth Strategy team.

This person will report into the  AMER Director of Growth Strategy. You’ll be working alongside a variety of departments and collaborators to drive the commercial performance of one of the largest video game franchises in the world. The wider Growth Strategy team will include colleagues based in Singapore, USA, Ireland and London.

This role requires structured problem solving, critical thinking, data driven decision-making and a commercial approach. To be successful you will harness internal and external data to improve our understanding of the business, and its drivers, on a regional and territory-level.

Success in this role means combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to advise other teams and senior leadership on our business strategy, tactics, and outcomes.

The ideal candidate works well with colleagues across functions, geographies, and skills to contribute to larger goals. They love to tell a thoughtful story from data and insight, with clear “so what’s” while seeking and incorporating feedback from collaborators. They enjoy working out how to structure ambiguous and difficult problems.

What You Will Do

• Analyse internal telemetry and sales data to extract compelling and practical business insights, communicating your findings and recommendations with various partners.

• Evaluate and find opportunities to grow revenues by analysing the business, customers and broader market

• Partner with regional teams to align on goals, analyse performance, and develop optimised pricing and sales strategies for our digital and physical products.

• Provide authoritative advice on the structuring, running and measurement of test-and-learn trials to improve revenue. These will be focused on retail led promotions and marketing activity to drive new & returning players.

• Establish and distribute regular performance reports and dashboards.

• Form relationships across geographies, functions, and levels to adopt new ways of working and leverage existing ones.

• Provide ongoing performance reporting on NBA2K titles to the Growth team and partner teams.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit

• Experience in strategy / management consulting, banking or fast-paced, dynamic, consumer-focused technology companies.

• Good analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to pull out the key stories in your analysis and present them in a digestible way.

• Experience with making PowerPoint presentations and Excel models.

• Understanding of basic accounting principles. (e.g. how a P&L works)

• Passionate about trying to understand and tackle difficult business problems.

• Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills.

• Willingness to learn SQL, Tableau, Snowflake etc.

Good To Have

• Exposure to a wide range of data and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:

  • Market sizing

  • Competitive analysis

  • Primary research

  • Forecasting (units & revenue)

• Comfortable in using SQL to extract data from large databases.

• Familiarity with visualisation tools & libraries, e.g. Tableau, PowerBI etc.

• Experience or passion for the video games industry is a plus.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.