The Playa

Analytics Lead

This role owns the Analytics function end-to-end and combines strategic leadership with hands-on analytical work. From data quality and experimentation design to insight translation and the impact of decisions on existing products and the development of new ones.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop the Analytics team, ensuring high performance, clear ownership, and consistent delivery
  • Actively drive data discovery, experimentation, and A/B testing
  • Personally contribute to and review complex analytics work, ensure high standards of data quality, analytical correctness, and code quality across all analytics work
  • Define analytics priorities and contribute to planning in collaboration with Product Managers & Project Managers
  • Continuously improve analytics tools and processes, combining hands-on problem solving with building scalable, repeatable solutions to increase impact and efficiency
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, ML Engineers, and Data Engineers across the full product lifecycle

 

Qualifications:

  • Experience: 
    • 5+ years of experience in data/product analytics, or applied data science
    • At least 1 year of experience leading an analytics team (mandatory)
    • Strong, hands-on experience in online casino / iGaming domain (mandatory)
  • Leadership & Collaboration: 
    • Proven ability to take ownership of analytics outcomes and influence decisions
    • Ability to explain complex analytical findings to non-technical audiences
    • Experience mentoring analysts and managing team performance
    • Strong prioritization under uncertainty
  • Data & SQL: 
    • Strong SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, and aggregations
    • Experience working with large analytical datasets
    • Ability to collaborate with Data Engineers on data models, quality, and metrics
  • Analytics & Experimentation: 
    • Strong proficiency in Python for analytics (pandas, numpy, scipy)
    • Solid knowledge of statistics, hypothesis testing, and experimental design
    • Hands-on experience running and analyzing A/B tests
    • Strong skills in data discovery and exploratory analysis
  • BI & Visualization: 
    • Experience with Tableau or other BI tools (Looker, Power BI, etc.)
    • Ability to build dashboards that clearly explain product and player performance
    • Understanding of best practices in data visualization
  • ML / Data Science (will be a plus): 
    • Practical experience building models, including clustering and prediction models
    • Familiarity with libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, PyTorch, etc.
    • Understanding of model evaluation and validation
    • Translating ML insights into actionable recommendations

 

 

Interview Process:

  1. Intro Interview - 30 min
  2. Technical Interview - 1 hour
  3. Leadership Interview - 1 hour
  4. Introduction with CEO - 30 min

 

 

Benefits:  

  • 21 day of paid vacation per year
  • Medical Insurance
  • Education budget of $600 per year provided
  • Professional English courses

Required skills experience

Data Analytics 5 years
Team Leadership 1 year
SQR/Query 4 years
Python 3 years
A/B Testing 3 years
Data Visualisation 4 years

Required domain experience

Gambling 1 year

Required languages

English B1 - Intermediate
Ukrainian Native
Data Science/Machine Learning, Predictive Models, scikit-learn
Published 21 January ยท Updated 21 January
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