Data Scientist
Aristocrat is seeking a Data Scientist to join the team in Barcelona to help build world-class mobile gaming experiences. This role focuses on driving player acquisition strategies through the application of innovative data science techniques.
The successful candidate will work within a collaborative environment to translate complex product and business challenges into actionable data-driven solutions. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to improve user experiences and business outcomes through advanced modelling and statistical analysis.
- Apply machine learning, statistical modelling, and causal inference to large-scale behavioural data to understand user behaviour, predict outcomes, and improve user experiences.
- Build, validate, and iterate on models designed to personalise individual user experiences.
- Translate ambiguous product, UX, and business challenges into clear data science problems, modelling approaches, evaluation criteria, and actionable recommendations.
- Identify high-impact opportunities where data science can reduce user friction, uncover unmet needs, and improve user and business outcomes.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders to scope high-impact data science opportunities and influence product direction.
- Collaborate with Analytics and Engineering teams to ensure reliable data foundations, high-quality features, and scalable model development workflows.
- Communicate modelling approaches, assumptions, trade-offs, limitations, and outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical collaborators.
- Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar quantitative field, or equivalent experience (required).
- Professional data science experience, with a consistent track record of delivering end-to-end data or ML projects (required).
- Practical experience applying analytical techniques to address real business challenges, ideally in a marketing, growth, or digital environment (required).
- Experience in gaming or digital entertainment (nice-to-have).
- Proficiency in Python and SQL (required).
- Experience building forecasting and time-series models (required).
- Familiarity with causal inference methods, such as diff-in-diff, regression discontinuity, or uplift modelling (required).
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimentation, including A/B testing and significance testing (required).
- Experience with data visualisation tools and communicating analytical results clearly (required).
- Pragmatic approach to problem-solving, favouring practical solutions (required).
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and switching context as business priorities evolve (required).
- Curious and proactive, with a deep understanding of problems before jumping to solutions (required).
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.