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Big Viking Games

Senior Data Analyst, Live Games

SalaryCA$100k – CA$120k
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Work modehybrid
Typefull-time
DepartmentOperations
Company size1+ people
First seen1w ago
Last seen4d ago
About the company
About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing
online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live
operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.
Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime.
These are enduring live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, social interaction, and long-term
player engagement at their core.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger data visibility, better
decision-making, practical AI adoption, smarter live operations, and scalable systems that help our games and
teams perform at a higher level.
About the role
About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior Data Analyst to support our live games, including YoWorld and FishWorld.
This is a hands-on analytics role for someone who loves digging into player behavior, building dashboards that
tell a clear story, and turning raw data into decisions that improve product, monetization, live operations, and
player experience.
You will partner closely with leadership, product, production, live operations, finance, and engineering to
analyze what is happening in our games, why it is happening, and what we should do next. Your work will
directly influence roadmap decisions, content strategy, monetization planning, player engagement, and
business performance.
This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable working in a fast-moving live-service environment, can bring
structure to complex datasets, and can communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical
stakeholders.
*This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, with an expectation of working in office three days per week.
Requirements
About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing
online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live
operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.
Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime. These are
enduring live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, social interaction, and long-term
player engagement at their core.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger data visibility, better
decision-making, practical AI adoption, smarter live operations, and scalable systems that help our games and
teams perform at a higher level.
About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring a Senior Data Analyst to support our live games, including YoWorld and FishWorld.
This is a hands-on analytics role for someone who loves digging into player behavior, building dashboards that
tell a clear story, and turning raw data into decisions that improve product, monetization, live operations, and
player experience.
You will partner closely with leadership, product, production, live operations, finance, and engineering to
analyze what is happening in our games, why it is happening, and what we should do next. Your work will
directly influence roadmap decisions, content strategy, monetization planning, player engagement, and
business performance.
This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable working in a fast-moving live-service environment, can bring
structure to complex datasets, and can communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical
stakeholders.
This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, with an expectation of working in office three days per week.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Do
● Analyze player behavior, retention, engagement, monetization, economy health, content performance,
and live operations performance across YoWorld and FishWorld.
● Conduct quantitative analysis and financial modeling to evaluate feature opportunities, content plans,
monetization risks, and strategic product decisions.
● Build, maintain, and improve dashboards that translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for
stakeholders across the studio.
● Write, maintain, and validate complex SQL workflows to extract, transform, and analyze large-scale
player and business datasets.
● Partner with product, production, live operations, and engineering teams to define telemetry,
instrumentation, and data collection requirements.
● Investigate behavioral patterns, session habits, player lifecycle trends, wallet dynamics, purchase
behavior, content engagement, and churn signals.
● Support live operations planning by identifying what content, events, offers, and engagement loops are
working, where they are underperforming, and what should be tested next.
● Help define KPIs, reporting standards, metric definitions, and repeatable analytics processes.
● Present findings clearly and confidently to leadership and cross-functional teams.
● Turn ambiguous product and business questions into structured analysis, clear recommendations, and
decision-ready narratives.
● Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate analysis, summarize findings, improve workflows, and reduce
repetitive reporting work.
● Help improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and trust in the company’s analytics systems.
What You Bring
● 3+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or a
related analytical role.
● Strong SQL skills with the ability to work across complex, multi-source data systems.
● Experience analyzing large datasets and turning analysis into real product or business decisions.
● Hands-on experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Sigma,
Metabase, or similar platforms.
● Comfort with Python, R, or similar scripting languages for data transformation, analysis, automation, or
modeling.
● Strong understanding of metrics, cohorts, funnels, segmentation, retention, engagement, monetization,
and behavioral analysis.
● Ability to build dashboards and reports that are clear, useful, and action-oriented.
● Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex analysis in plain business language.
● Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and bring structure to ambiguous problems.
● Strong attention to detail and a high bar for data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
● Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Business
Analytics, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
Nice to Have
● Experience with Snowflake or similar modern cloud data platforms.
● Experience in gaming, live-service products, social games, casual games, free-to-play games, virtual
worlds, or digital products.
● Experience with game economies, virtual currencies, pricing, bundles, offers, content performance, and
player lifecycle analysis.
● Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, statistical analysis, forecasting, or predictive modeling.
● Experience supporting product managers, live operations teams, designers, finance teams, or executive
stakeholders.
● Experience with data modeling, dbt, analytics engineering, ETL/ELT workflows, or data quality
processes.
● Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms to improve analytics
workflows, reporting, research, and insight generation.
● A genuine interest in games, player behavior, social products, and long-running online communities.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is analytical, curious, practical, and commercially minded. They do not just produce
reports. They help the business understand what matters, what changed, why it changed, and what action
should be taken.
They are comfortable working with imperfect data, but they care deeply about accuracy and clarity. They can
move between SQL, dashboards, financial analysis, product questions, player behavior, and executive
communication without losing the thread.
This role is best suited for someone who wants their work to be seen, used, and acted on. You will have the
opportunity to directly shape live games with loyal communities, meaningful revenue, and real growth
opportunities.
Benefits
Compensation
The expected base salary range for this role is CAD $100,000 to $120,000, depending on experience, technical
depth, live-service experience, and overall fit.
Benefits
Benefits
● Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
● Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
● Health and Wellness spending account.
● Generous time off policies.
● Opportunity to work on long-running live-service games with established player communities.
● Exposure to product, live operations, monetization, data strategy, and business decision-making.
● A high-impact role where your insights can directly influence what we build and how we operate.
Legal
Accessibility and Accommodation
Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. We
welcome applications from individuals of all abilities and will provide accommodations throughout the hiring
process as needed.
If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please contact [email protected] so we can
work with you to support your needs.
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