Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist 4 Location: Hybrid: 3 days per week : BEAR CREEK A , WA Duration: 18 months Contract Type: Contract, W2 Top IT Firm • Purpose of the Team: The team is part of the Minecraft data organization within MS Gaming and partners with cross‑functional groups such as Product, Finance, and Marketing to deliver data‑driven insights that enhance player experience and support business operations. • Key projects: This role will contribute to digital monetization, downloadable content, and expanding user generated content offerings. They will support expanding the Marketplace to better compete in the user‑generated content space, making this an especially interesting role for candidates familiar with platform s like Roblox or Fortnite. Candidate Requirements • Disqualifiers: Candidates who are not comfortable engaging with stakeholders regularly (e.g., presenting insights, driving conversations, or training partners on data outputs) would not be a fit for this role. It is non negotiable to be onsite for those 3 days, candidates who cannot commit to that will not be eligible. • Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain experience in digital subscription based or streaming services (e.g., Netflix, Spotify) Hard Skills Assessments • Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: asap • Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include one round with the sponsor and an FTE (one hour) • Required Candidate Preparation: come prepared with ex of how they used data to influence stakeholder decisions Summary: This is a Minecraft Monetization data scientist role. Apply advanced analytics, experimentation, and predictive modeling to optimize monetization across Minecraft's three revenue pillars: Realms subscriptions, Marketplace content sales, and Creator on Demand. This role will build LTV models, analyze cross-product spend behavior, design and read out A/B tests on pricing and UX changes, and surface insights that drive revenue growth while protecting player experience. The ideal candidate has strong statistical foundations, fluency in Python and SQL on Databricks, and experience modeling user spending behavior in games or subscription products. Job Responsibilities: • Work with senior management, technical and client teams in order to determine data requirements, business data implementation approaches, best practices for advanced data manipulation, storage and analysis strategies • Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions • Design, implement, automate and maintain large scale enterprise data ETL processes • Modify existing databases and database management systems and/or direct programmers and analysts to make changes • Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required • 8-10 years applicable experience required • Experience with database technologies • Knowledge of the ETL process • Knowledge of at least one scripting language • Strong written and oral communication skills • Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills • Demonstrated history of success • Desire to work with data and helping businesses make better data driven decisions Please let me know if this is something you would love to do, and help me with your updated resume. Feel free to reach out at Harshiv@ifgpr.com if you have any questions. Thanks