Job Details

Overview

2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by influential studios, including Visual Concepts, Gearbox, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. 2K publishes titles across genres including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment. The Core Games team acts as the publishing steward of our Core franchises such as Borderlands, Sid Meier's Civilization, BioShock, Mafia, XCOM, and other titles. The company is headquartered in Novato, California, and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). 2K emphasizes an inclusive work environment and encourages applicants to explore global positions.

What We Need

The Senior Director of Data Science is a key leader within the Core Business Unit, responsible for shaping and scaling the analytics strategy that drives product, marketing, and commercial decision-making across 2K's core franchises. You will develop and lead a globally distributed team of data scientists and analysts based in the U.S. and Dublin, Ireland. Together, you will unlock insights from complex, large-scale player and business data to shape target audience definitions, game design, inform live service strategy, and optimize engagement, retention, and monetization across our AAA portfolio. Your remit spans the full lifecycle of player and commercial performance—guiding predictive modeling, experimentation, player segmentation, lifecycle marketing, and in-market analytics. You will partner with Product, Studio, Marketing, and Commercial leaders to build a unified, data-informed view of player experience and business health that drives critical decisions and long-term franchise success. The scope of this role includes leading all aspects of analytical operations for Core, including recurring analysis, ad-hoc insights, and experimentation functions.

What You'll Do

• Lead Core's Data Strategy: Champion and scale the Core Business Unit's analytics vision to empower data-driven decision-making across game development, live services, marketing, and commercial functions.
• Analytics Oversight & Strategy Influence: Collaborate with Product, Studio, Marketing, and Commercial partners to ensure Core's analytics inform key decisions and long-term planning, synthesizing objectives, identifying data sources and tools, and delivering actionable insights.

Behavioural Insights Synthesis & Telemetry Optimization:

• Drive Live Service & in-game player behavior insights to inform design, monetization, and retention across live and in-development titles.
• Operationalize experimentation and machine learning use cases that drive personalization, feature optimization, and content performance.
• Shape scalable infrastructure and telemetry by partnering with Studio and Central Data teams to ensure clean, scalable data pipelines and instrumentation supporting actionable in-game telemetry insights.

Audience Definition Enrichment:

• Partner with Marketing and Customer Insights to develop data-driven audience definitions and actionable personas (informed by in-game telemetry) guiding the full product lifecycle from ideation to marketing execution.

Strategic Leadership:

• Own analytics prioritization across Core, managing team bandwidth, execution quality, and stakeholder needs in a dynamic development environment.
• Hire, develop, and mentor a global team of data scientists and analysts; foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and scalable execution.

Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit

• 10+ years of experience in data science or analytics, with significant exposure to gaming, entertainment, or consumer tech and a track record of turning data into strategic advantage
• 6+ years leading analytics or data science teams across multiple geographies
• Leadership in live service analytics, including experimentation frameworks, content and feature performance, churn and retention modeling, and player behavioral insights
• Deep fluency in telemetry instrumentation, event tracking, data pipeline design, and QA, in collaboration with engineering and product partners
• Strong knowledge of player lifecycle metrics, including segmentation, LTV modeling, economy balancing, and engagement KPIs across a portfolio of titles
• Proficiency in SQL and Python or R, and experience with BI and experimentation tools such as Tableau or Looker
• Executive presence and ability to communicate complex analytics to senior stakeholders and influence product, marketing, and commercial decisions at scale

Bonus Points

• Understanding of free-to-play or multi-platform live service ecosystems across mobile, PC, and console
• Experience leading centralized analytics or data science functions supporting multiple games or business domains
• Background in AI/ML applications for player modeling, personalization, or predictive insights
• Experience scaling analytics across a complex portfolio with varied content strategies
• Player-first mindset and passion for games

Location
Dublin, with ability to travel to the US 1-2x/quarter

Equal Opportunity We're an equal opportunity employer and provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Note 2K Games and its studios do not use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews; only 2K.com accounts should be used for official communication.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

Industries

• Computer Games