Toronto, Canada Remote (Global) Full-time

Kimaru Talent is hiring a (Senior) Manager, Data Analytics

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts embedded across multiple game titles, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities.
  • Own the analytics function's centralized roadmap covering tooling, instrumentation, automation, and enablement priorities.
  • Partner with product managers and embedded analysts to maintain a prioritized backlog of analytics work aligned to each title's roadmap.
  • Establish and maintain high standards for analytical methodology, including A/B testing governance, telemetry design, and data storytelling.
  • Identify and drive opportunities to automate reporting, improve self-serve data access, and incorporate AI tooling.
  • Ensure the team produces clear, decision-oriented outputs trusted by game leads and leadership.
  • Build systems for knowledge sharing, including analysis reviews, shared documentation, reusable templates, and cross-title learnings.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in analytics or data science, with 2+ years managing or leading an analytics team.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop analysts and raise team output quality and impact.
  • Deep expertise in A/B testing and experimentation, including hypothesis design, power analysis, and communicating results to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Advanced SQL skills and fluency across a modern data stack (data warehousing, BI tooling, analytics engineering).
  • Strong understanding of consumer product KPIs — retention, engagement, and monetization in a live service or F2P context.
  • Clear POV on where AI and automation can improve analytics team operations, with experience driving adoption.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in games, live service, mobile F2P, or UGC platforms.
  • Familiarity with dbt and Python.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Required Skills
AnalyticsData ScienceA/B TestingPython
About company
Kimaru Talent

KIMARU Talent offers specialized and agile recruitment services to VC-backed game studios and tech startups.

We truly believe that business growth & success begins with recruitment and hold pride in what we do. With our expertise in startup recruitment, we often partner with Founders and Executives before they even have an internal recruitment team and grow our partnership as they grow.

About the Founder: The Founder of KIMARU Talent, Rumiko Matsumoto, has been recruiting for startups in the mobile app, gaming, and ad-tech industries for nearly a decade. Partnering with reputable VCs, investors, and serial entrepreneurs, she has served as a trusted recruitment partner for hundreds of startups throughout the years. Most recently, she led Talent Acquisition at Sensor Tower, a global SaaS startup that provides competitive mobile app industry insights. She and her team scaled headcount by 5x as she hired the global leadership team and built the recruitment team and function from the ground up.

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Job Details
Department UGC Game Studio
Category management
Posted a month ago