Principal Research Analyst

We’re looking for a seasoned Principal Research Analyst! If you’re a curious and passionate analyst with a track record of building mature research functions, we invite you to join our journey. Your mission will be to proactively identify thematic opportunities that contribute to the company's bottom line and see them through to implementation. You’ll leverage your extensive experience in research methodologies and prescriptive analytics to create massive business impact at EFG. This is a unique opportunity to be a founding member of a newly formed team that represents the tip of the spear for EFG’s Data Organization. You will shape a world-class research function at a global, data-driven company that creates worlds beyond gameplay and brings communities together.

EXPECTATIONS

Research Project Leadership
○ Take ownership of research initiatives from conception to execution, with a focus on bottom line business impact.
○ Define research objectives, methodologies, deliverables, and timelines.
○ Drive collaboration and communication among team members and stakeholders to achieve project milestones and deliverables. ○ Generate data-driven hypotheses and design rigorous experiments to test.
○ Proactively identify opportunities to leverage new data sources, technologies, and methodologies to enhance the team’s research capabilities.
○ Apply your fresh perspective, curiosity, and analytical thinking to uncover new research opportunities and challenge the status quo.
○ Translate research findings into actionable insights and prescribe recommendations that drive strategic decision-making and help the business achieve its goals.
○ Develop an expert understanding of the business while forming partnerships and building trust with senior leaders and stakeholders.
○ Follow through on research projects by partnering with stakeholder teams to implement solutions you have prescribed. Track and report on KPIs to measure the impact of those solutions.

Technical Expertise and Mentorship
○ Serve as the technical leader on the Research Analytics team, sharing best practices and driving continuous improvement.
○ Mentor analysts in data analysis, advanced statistical techniques, and research methodologies.
○ Review and provide feedback on code written by team members.
○ Stay abreast of emerging trends in analytics, research, and data science, sharing knowledge and insights with the team.
○ Foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the Research Analytics team, encouraging creative thinking and bold ideas.

Requirements

EXPERIENCE

Proven Research Experience
○ You have 8+ years of experience as a research analyst or similar.
○ You’ve owned and executed large, complex research projects from inception to completion that have driven significant, tangible business results.
○ You’ve written white papers and/or contributed to research publications that have driven thought leadership.
○ Extensive experience formulating hypotheses and designing experiments, including control group selection, sample size calculation, and statistical power analysis.
○ Track record of identifying internal and external data assets that enable innovative research. Familiarity with industry-specific data sources and APIs a nice-to-have.

Data Analysis
○ Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python or R for data extraction, transformation, cleaning, and analysis.
○ Experience conducting Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on large-scale data sets to reveal patterns, detect anomalies, and test hypotheses.
○ Expert analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data sets and distill key insights for senior leadership and executive teams.
○ Strong background in statistics, including descriptive, inferential, probability distributions, time-series, multivariate analysis. Knowledge of Baysian statistics and predictive ML techniques (decision trees and random forests) and nice-to-have.

Communication and Stakeholder Management
○ Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical audiences in a clear, compelling manner.
○ Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, mitigate risks, and manage stakeholder expectations.
○ You’re comfortable cultivating relationships with senior leaders and earning their trust through frequent communication and consistently high quality deliverables.
○ Last, but certainly not least, you possess strong fundamentals. You do the little things right because they matter. You’re disciplined, organized, and a stickler for details.