Director of Data

at  Second Dinner

WHO WE ARE

Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. Not super fun games. Not SUPER DUPER fun games. We mean the MOST fun games. In fact, our game MARVEL SNAP has earned multiple Mobile Game of the Year Awards (Game Awards, DICE), Best Strategy Game (IGN), and the Apple Design Award for Innovation!
Second Dinner is a remote-first studio, so while we are headquartered in Irvine, California, most of our team is fully remote across the United States. We want the most talented teammates wherever they call home. A diverse team with varied perspectives makes us a better company and will help us make better games. If you can bring something new to the table and expand our point of view, that’s a huge upside.

YOUR ROLE

You will report to the VP of AI, Data and Security, and your primary responsibility is to lead the data science and engineering team to enable the Marvel SNAP and our incubation games. You will guide the team to build and operate a reliable and scalable data backbone. You will help level up the SNAP team’s capability in rigorous decision-making with data and experimentation. You will lead the team to develop data and machine learning services to improve the player experience. You will partner with the AI team to adopt relevant technology to enhance and expand the game for SNAP players. You will collaborate with Analytics, Product, Design, Marketing, and many other disciplines to help make our games wildly fun and drive growth worldwide. If you are a hands-on technical leader who loves building exceptional data teams, crafting world-class game experiences, collaborating with extraordinarily talented cross-functional teams, and creating data science and engineering solutions to impact millions of players directly, then APPLY!!!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Empower and grow top talent in data science and data engineering. Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and customer-focused team culture
• Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable, reliable, and efficient data infrastructure to support Marvel SNAP and our future games
• Lead the team to architect and build the machine learning serving and operations framework to enable data scientists to model, iterate and deploy fast
• Enable and empower teams to build data products, tools, and features that deliver game outcomes
• Collaborate with Analytics, Product, Design, and Marketing teams to identify business opportunities and shape the Data team’s priorities to align with them
• Build organizational capabilities to enable data-driven decision-making at all levels, fostering a strong data culture across the company
• Define and raise the bar for technical excellence in the data discipline. Advocate for best practices in data science, data engineering, and experimentation across the company.
• Contribute to and execute Second Dinner’s overarching data strategy