Marketing Data Product Engineer at Bandai Namco Mobile

About the company:

Description of the position:

Job located in Spain

PAC-MAN to Tekken, Tamagotchi to Dark Souls, we are an entertainment company steeped in history and Bandai Namco Mobile is the core pillar of the Bandai Namco Group’s mobile strategy to grow in the West!

We offer a place where everyone can play an active role in decision-making and directly influence our collective work. Our goal in Barcelona is to enrich Bandai Namco’s list of successful IPs by creating original and innovative mobile games, as well as growing our fan base in the West for our existing IPs.

Our Marketing Team

We are a small and dynamic team of experienced global marketers, with proven expertise across the vast Mobile Gaming spectrum. Whilst our disciplines differ, our goal is the same: to grow and nurture our community of Bandai Namco mobile game players in the West.

As part of the marketing team, you will be working on some of the most prestigious IPs that have shaped the Entertainment industry and popular cultures like DRAGON BALL, internal IPs like PAC-MAN or Tamagotchi as well as future IPs developed by our Game team in Barcelona.

Advocating innovation over repetition and autonomy over hierarchy, we strive to remain as agile as possible in an ever-changing market. Teamwork and collaboration with our head office in Japan are key to our success as we continue to grow the Bandai Namco brand worldwide.

Marketing Data Product Engineer

We are looking for a Marketing Data Product Engineer to join our senior marketing team. In this role, you will play a key role in answering complex business problems by developing user-friendly tools to help us boost growth, productivity, and compliance for some of Bandai Namco’s most prestigious IPs.

In this role, you will be responsible for building and deploying data products that enhance the productivity of the marketing team. This includes developing user-friendly interfaces that make our marketing data science models easily accessible and creating tailored data visualization products to support the use cases of our BI tools.

You will work closely with the data team to provide insights for UA, creative, community, and branding. As well as creating self-service analytics tools that empower the marketing team to make independent, data-driven decisions.

Adaptability and innovation are key, as you will apply your expertise to develop solutions for a diverse set of use cases. By embracing an iterative mindset, you will continuously refine data products, incorporating user feedback to drive improvements.

Requirements

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, or engineering
• 5+ years of experience in mobile games creating data products
• Proven experience in developing and deploying data products with user-friendly interfaces using modern JavaScript front-end technologies: React, JavaScript/Typescript, Proton, or Python-based UI (e.g., Panel, Streamlit)
• Ability to create UIs for use cases where machine learning models are needed
• Experience integrating large language models
• Experience integrating APIs to create new data sources
• A talent for helping non-technical people to define the use cases and questions relevant to the business, then answering them with sound data analytics.

Bonus

• Experience in creating and maintaining data engineering pipelines and MLOps on AWS
• Ability to create data transformations by writing SQL queries and being able to create them in dbt
• Experience working with user acquisition and marketing teams
• Knowledge and interest in gaming, tech, and media industry trends
• General knowledge of Japanese anime and Bandai Namco IPs would be appreciated