Senior Data Scientist - Rovio - Helsinki, Finland
Data Scientist
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Job Description
You will have impact and fun at work by: Developing predictive and statistical models that support large-scale User Acquisition decisions. Tackling challenging problems involving long-term forecasting, uncertainty quantification, optimization, and rare-event behaviour. Exploring and evaluating new modelling approaches and translating research ideas into production systems. Collaborating closely with stakeholders across Rovio — including UA managers, game teams, finance, analysts, engineers, and fellow data scientists — to solve high-impact business problems. Taking ownership of models throughout their lifecycle, from problem formulation and experimentation to deployment and monitoring. Contributing to a highly collaborative modelling culture where problems are scoped together, ideas are workshopped openly, and solutions are developed through pair coding, code reviews, and close day-to-day collaboration with the team.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, Finland | 33 |
| Barcelona, Spain | 14 |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7 |
| Remote - Global | 3 |
| Espoo, Finland | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Product Manager | 3 |
| Marketing Specialist | 3 |
| Designer | 3 |
| Data Analyst | 3 |
| Quality Assurance | 2 |
| Sound Designer | 2 |
| Manager | 2 |
| Technical Account Manager | 2 |
| Data Scientist | 1 |
| Public Relations Lead | 1 |
| Product Marketing Manager | 1 |
| Data Engineer | 1 |
| Content Marketing Manager | 1 |
| Content and Influencer Marketing Manager | 1 |
| Software Engineer | 1 |
| Senior LiveOps Specialist | 1 |
| User Experience Designer | 1 |
| Game Developer | 1 |
| Strategic Partnerships Lead | 1 |
| Advertising Monetisation Specialist | 1 |
| Senior | 1 |
| Product Lead | 1 |
| Talent Acquisition Partner | 1 |
| Level Designer | 1 |
| Business Controller | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Senior | 9 |
| Mid-Level | 5 |
| Manager | 5 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
Rovio appears in 58 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Helsinki, Finland, Barcelona, Spain, and Stockholm, Sweden.
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Job Details
Responsibilities
- Developing predictive and statistical models for user acquisition.
- Solving problems involving forecasting, uncertainty, optimization, and rare events.
- Exploring new modeling approaches and translating research into production.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to solve business problems.
- Owning models throughout their lifecycle.
- Contributing to a collaborative modeling culture.
Requirements
- Extensive years of experience in data science.
- Academic degree in applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, computer science, or related field.
- Proficiency in Python, including numerical and data science libraries, and designing data pipelines in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of Bayesian modeling, Statistical inference, Predictive modeling, Optimization, Uncertainty quantification, Numerical methods.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical teammates.
- Enjoyment of collaborative problem-solving.
Skills & Technologies
Education Level
None required