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Data Scientist, Marketing

Scopely
San Francisco, CA, United StatesSunnyvale, CA, United States
Posted 3 hours ago
Last seen 3 hours ago
Active
full-time
Niantic
$141,800—$202,500 USD

Job Summary

Join Scopely as a Data Scientist, Marketing, and leverage your analytical prowess to drive global marketing strategies. You'll develop AI-powered measurement frameworks and predictive models, transforming marketing investments into long-term player value for beloved games like MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO.

About this job

Scopely is seeking a quantitatively strong and business-oriented Data Scientist, Marketing to support its global Marketing organization. This role involves developing measurement frameworks, analytical models, and scalable reporting solutions to inform user acquisition, brand investment, direct marketing, and long-term player growth. The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills with intellectual curiosity to understand how marketing investments translate into long-term player value, with a mandatory forward-thinking mindset on AI's impact.

Requirements

- Build and maintain robust ETL pipelines that ingest, transform, and validate UA data from ad networks, MMPs, and internal systems. - Develop and refine predictive LTV (pLTV) models to enable faster optimization of UA campaigns based on early user signals. - Explore, develop, and refine AI-based systems that are able to answer common data inquiries from stakeholders, as well as quickly diagnose data pipeline issues. - Contribute to marketing mix modeling (MMM) and other aggregate measurement approaches to evaluate cross-channel and upper-funnel impact. - Support testing frameworks (e.g., geo experiments, holdouts, incrementality tests) to evaluate campaign effectiveness in privacy-constrained environments. - Partner with Finance and UA teams to align on forecasting methodologies and investment strategies driven by pLTV and payback periods. - Build and maintain reliable datasets and ETL workflows that ingest and transform marketing data from ad platforms, CRM systems, social channels, and internal data sources. - Support measurement and optimization of direct marketing channels including email, push notifications, in-app messaging, and other CRM/lifecycle campaigns. - Partner with Marketing stakeholders to provide actionable insights on targeting, segmentation, messaging effectiveness, and channel strategy. - Contribute to scalable dashboards and standardized reporting that enable self-serve marketing analytics. - Ensure data quality, documentation, and consistency across marketing data pipelines. - Leverage modern AI/ML tools (e.g., automated modeling workflows, AI coding assistants) to improve analysis speed, code quality, and documentation. - Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting and insight generation for marketing stakeholders. - Contribute to responsible and thoughtful adoption of AI-powered analytics tools. - 1–5 years of experience in data science, marketing analytics, or a related quantitative role (gaming, mobile, or digital consumer experience preferred). - Understanding of marketing measurement across paid media, brand/awareness, social, and direct marketing channels (e.g., email, push, CRM). - Familiarity with core performance metrics such as CAC, ROAS, retention, engagement, and LTV. - Experience working with marketing data from ad platforms, CRM systems, or aggregate reporting environments. - Proficiency in SQL and experience using Python (or similar) for analysis. - Experience working with large datasets in a cloud data warehouse (e.g., BigQuery) and building dashboards in BI tools (e.g., Looker). - Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills in a cross-functional environment.

Benefits & Perks

- Equity - Bonuses - Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits - Retirement benefits - Pet insurance - Paid holidays - Paid Scopely free days - Unlimited paid time off

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