Data Science Intern - Summer 2025

1 Week ago • Upto 1 Years • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

King is seeking Data Science Interns for their Barcelona office for a 3-month internship (June-September 2025). Interns will work within a team of 6-8 data scientists, analyzing over a billion gameplays and 10 billion daily events. Responsibilities include building reports, identifying analytical requirements, translating business needs into technical implementations, developing new analyses and insights to drive user acquisition and retention strategies, and working on projects focused on optimizing game playtests, player experience, marketing campaign analysis, and automated solutions. The ideal candidate will possess strong quantitative analysis, statistical, or mathematical skills, programming abilities (R, Python, SQL preferred), and experience with large datasets. Exposure to A/B testing and data visualization is a plus.
Must have:
  • Strong quantitative analysis skills
  • Programming skills (R, Python, SQL)
  • Experience with large datasets
  • Statistical analysis expertise
  • Data visualization experience
Good to have:
  • A/B testing knowledge
  • Java, Matlab experience
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Creative problem-solving skills

Job Details

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Data, Analytics & Strategy

Job Description:

Data Science Internships – Summer 2025 

 

Your role within our Kingdom    

We are looking for extraordinarily skilled Interns from a variety of backgrounds and interests to join our Kingdom!    

We are looking for talented and creative Data Science Interns interested in pushing the boundaries of online games analytics to join our Kingdom! When we talk about data, we’re talking about more than a billion gameplays and 10 billion events. Every day.    

You will be part of the community of 100+ data science & analytics experts at King, while working on a daily basis in smaller teams of 6-8 people, including other data scientists & analytics, focused on particular games, our network or specific business areas. You will help us further understand, model, predict, segment and retain our players, and help take King’s data capabilities to the next level.    

 

Data Science Intern  

You will take part in typical tasks such as building both large systematic reports and one-off small pieces of analysis. You’ll also be working with all parts of the business to identify analytical requirements and formalize an approach for reliable, accurate, efficient reporting on those requirements. The role also entails translating business needs to technical requirements and implementation and proactively developing new analyses and insights, to drive decisions and strategies for user acquisition and retention.  You will be strong in quantitative analysis, statistics or mathematics, have programming skills and an interest in drawing business insights from data. Knowledge of statistical methods e.g. A/B testing/predictive analytics skills is a plus. You have ideally worked with practical applications of data analysis e.g. segmentation & visualisation and have programming skills in languages such as R, Python, Julia, Matlab etc. Experience dealing with large, real-world datasets and SQL is a plus and ideally you will be studying/have studied a quantitative/statistics based degree.  

   

You will get the chance to get involved in one or more of the below areas depending on your final team:   

  • Monitor and optimize games during playtest giving support to game production teams in developing new features that make our games even more engaging   

  • Optimize player experience and provide insights crucial to bringing new games towards a worldwide launch   

  • Analyse the impact of marketing campaigns on key business measures such as player activity, game rounds, retention etc   

  • Participate in innovative projects with the goal of providing robust and scalable solutions to automate tasks and to characterize and anticipate the behavior of our players.   

  • Understand business problems and set the framework to address them by defining the right data and conducting analysis to lead to the right recommendations and decisions 

  • Understand level metrics and player progression, identifying improvement areas based on existing statistical models. 

  • Another option might be to become fully devoted to a scientific project helping us understand our players motivations, choices and their impact on our top metrics.  

 

Skills to create thrills    

You will be enthusiastic about applications of Data Science, Statistics or ML to data analysis and be able to share and discuss learnings from your past projects. 

You will ideally have an interest in games, and you should have the ability to work in a flexible and fluid environment, where the job will evolve over time.  

    

Tasty Bonus Skills:    

  • Excellent communication and organization skills, with the ability to present your analysis in a clear and unambiguous way   

  • Knowledge/Experience in dealing with large datasets and statistical analysis   

  • Coding skills in languages such as Java, SQL, R and/or Python   

  • Exposure to, or knowledge of AB testing    

  • Creative problem-solving skills    

  • The ability to work well, both autonomously, and as part of a larger team    

  • You should be pursuing, or have recently completed, an education in a STEM or related subject i.e. Data Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science, Psychometrics etc.  

 

The skills listed above are intended to portray the range of roles we have available; you do not need to possess all of these skills to apply! We will look at your own individual skill set and determine which team you would be best suited to.   

 

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.   

 

Want to join our Kingdom? 

Apply now! Positions are available in Barcelona, applications need to be in English. Our internships will last for 3 months, beginning in June 2025 and ending in September 2025. Please note: our application deadline is, 17th of February, however we recruit on an ongoing basis, so early application is advised to avoid disappointment. 

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent.     

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest 

 

About King 

 

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.  

A great saga needs all sorts of heroes 

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.  

 

Making the World Playful  
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful! 

 

 

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
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