Data Analyst, Performance Marketing (Digital Gaming)

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

Mattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the power of Mattel's iconic brands and IP to create a wide variety of engaging digital games. Our team is guided by industry leaders with decades of experience in various facets of the gaming industry. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission to create innovative and engaging digital experiences that resonate with our beloved brands. If you are passionate about gaming and eager to be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team in family entertainment, this is the opportunity for you! 

The Opportunity: 

As a Marketing Data Analyst on Mattel Games Studios' Growth Marketing team, you'll leverage advanced analytics to drive growth across our digital gaming portfolio. You’ll build data pipelines, intuitive dashboards, and conduct statistical analyses to optimize user acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. Collaborating closely with marketing managers, data engineers, product managers, and creatives, you'll inform strategic decisions on channel spend, creative optimization, and player lifecycle management, while navigating privacy-centric frameworks like SKAdNetwork and Privacy Sandbox. This role offers a proactive analyst the opportunity to directly shape impactful business outcomes in a dynamic environment. 

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Analyze large-scale marketing performance datasets, providing weekly insights on channel efficiency and optimization levers.  

• Develop and maintain marketing analytics dashboards, ensuring consistency in cohort reporting, LTV curves, and ROAS calculations.  

• Perform data reconciliation from various sources such as our MMP, Firebase, SKAdNetwork, and App Store Consoles to ensure data accuracy.  

• Maintain and improve existing SQL-based data pipelines that transform raw data into actionable insights.  

• Conduct creative analytics by dissecting asset performance (e.g., IPM, CVR, CTR) to help our creative teams iterate on new concepts.  

• Partner with marketing managers to analyze the results of A/B tests, incrementality experiments, and campaign lift tests, helping to quantify their impact on our growth. 

• Serve as the Growth team's subject-matter expert for SKAN, managing our conversion value schema, monitoring data integrity, and translating SKAN-based performance into actionable insights for the UA team. 

• Run cohort analyses and contribute to our LTV and payback models, providing the core data that helps inform budget allocation and strategic planning. 

• Partner with UA and Finance to create short- and long-range spend/return forecasts.  

• Serve as a critical liaison between Growth Marketing and broader analytics/data functions within Mattel. 

What We’re Looking For:

• 4+ years in F2P mobile gaming or a similarly data-intensive digital business. 

• Proficiency in data visualization using tools like Mixpanel or Tableau to create dashboards. 

• Strong proficiency in SQL (BigQuery) for querying and manipulating large, complex datasets. 

• Practical experience using Python or R for data analysis, manipulation, and automation. 

• Strong practical experience working with SKAN data, including hands-on management of conversion value schemas and reconciling SKAN performance against other data sources. 

• Strong grasp of mobile marketing KPIs (e.g. CPI, ROAS, ARPU, retention, IPM), campaign funnel metrics, and optimization levers. 

• Strong foundation in applied statistics, such as A/B testing, to validate and inform recommendations. 

• A curious and proactive mindset with a strong desire to solve problems and a high degree of accountability. 

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present data-driven findings clearly and concisely. 

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Math, Computer Science) or equivalent practical experience. 

• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.

The annual base salary range for this position is between $80,000 and $125,000.
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however annual base salary will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience. Mattel offers competitive total pay programs, comprehensive benefits, and resources to help empower a culture where every employee can reach their full potential.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Who We Are:

Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment.

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