Data Analyst

Do you want to help players on their journey to continue discovering more, and even better, games on web?

Hey - we're Poki! We're a tech scale-up on a mission to create the ultimate online playground. Currently, more than 50 million monthly players around the world come to us for easy access to the best games on web. The games are created by our thriving game developer community, existing of 350 game developer teams. Making sure players benefit from more, and better games is key to the growth of our playground. To bring the discovery for our players to the next level we're looking for a Data Analyst.

TL;DR

Poki is a multisided platform and our business model is set up for scale. Our platform is designed so that players from all over the world can have a good experience playing free games, while game developers can generate earnings. These games are created by game developers from our community and are released on Poki through our developer platform, Poki for Developers. The more players we attract to our Playground, the more earnings we generate for our developers. We work with a selected group of advertisers to monetize the games while making sure we only show quality ads.

Our data savvy Content team is responsible for how we present the games of our game developers on our playground. With actionable insights we help our developers create quality content to attract more players.

Your Focus as a Data Analyst at Poki

Working in the Content team, your main goal is to improve the player experience by fulfilling the needs of our players. Therefore one of the focus areas for this role is to create insights on opportunities to improve the player experience.
Some examples of how this might look:

Analyze the usage of search on our playground. Asking questions such as which games are hard to find for our players?
Create a new dashboard to A/B test thumbnails. Answering which thumbnail creates the best player experience?
Help our game developer operations team to understand what games to sign. Do we offer the most popular games and categories in our niche?

Another main focus area will be acting on opportunities to improve the content on our platform. Some examples of how this might look:

Improve the most visited, and worst performing pages of our playground by making sure we recommend the right games and categories.
Optimize titles and descriptions of pages for a better player experience, and search engine optimization. Are we helping players and search engines understand the content on the page?

You could be our Data Analyst if:

You’re a critical thinker, and have 1-2 years experience as an analyst
You’re business savvy, and eager to optimize for performance
You’re curious to understand the complex dynamics of a multi-sided platform (balancing the needs of players, game developers, and advertisers).
You Have experience with:

Structuring data with SQL (BigQuery, Snowflake or similar products)
Visualizing data (Lookerstudio, Tableau or similar products

You have excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
You are based in The Netherlands, and able to work on-site at our office in Amsterdam

Bonus Experience:

Knowledge of SEO

Why work at Poki:

Direct impact on the experience of our team, both hybrid and at the office, and on our community of 300+ game developers.
A lot of personal responsibility and freedom, plus the chance to work together with a diverse, international, talented and self-motivated team.
Play is how we learn, and we believe that when you grow, we grow. We offer an annual training budget, and many members of our team have been with us since their internships and now are leading teams.
We care about our team, and your wellbeing matters. We have a dedicated colleague who focuses on a variety of wellbeing initiatives from regular check-ins with everyone to bi-weekly massages at the office.
Opportunity to connect with colleagues through work retreats, drinks every Thursday and team activities.
A full-time contract (36-40 hours/week) and a competitive salary - we value our teams’ skills and experiences.
The chance to work in our playful office in the heart of Amsterdam

Are you curious? Do you thrive in an environment of dynamic possibilities? You may well be our new Data Analyst, so hit apply and tell us more about yourself!

Apply now