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Only applicants living in British Columbia will be considered for the role. Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.**\nOur Values\nDriven by PLAYER OBSESSION, we earn our players’ trust by understanding their needs and creating experiences that put them first.\nOWNERSHIP means we take responsibility for our work and outcomes; we follow through, learn from mistakes, and never say “that’s not my job.”\nWith RESOURCEFULNESS, we do more with less, finding creative ways to overcome challenges and deliver impactful results.\nGrounded in CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, we are relentless in our pursuit of better; for ourselves, our games, and our players.\nAbout Kano\nKano is an independent gaming studio that has been building and operating live games for over 15 years. Our games have long-running player communities, mature economies, live events, web and mobile platforms, and real business complexity behind them.\nWe are a small, remote-first team. People here have room to make a visible impact, but that also means we need people who take ownership, learn quickly, adapt and care about whether their work actually changes decisions.\nOur Values\nDriven by PLAYER OBSESSION, we earn our players’ trust by understanding their needs and creating experiences that put them first.\nOWNERSHIP means we take responsibility for our work and outcomes; we follow through, learn from mistakes, and never say “that’s not my job.”\nWith RESOURCEFULNESS, we do more with less, finding creative ways to overcome challenges and deliver impactful results.\nGrounded in CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, we are relentless in our pursuit of better; for ourselves, our games, and our players.\nAbout the Role\nWe are hiring a Product Analytics Engineer (AI-First) to help us better understand our players, improve our games, and raise the quality of our games, marketing, and live-operations decisions across Kano. This is a hands-on analytics role working across product, games, marketing, LiveOps, technical quality, and our AWS-based data stack. This is not a dashboard-only role or a pure data engineering role.\nThe right person is strong with data, curious about games and product design, comfortable working in a technical analytics environment, and uses AI tools. While this is not an AI product development role, AI is core to how you will operate daily. You will use tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and emerging AI tools to accelerate analysis, write and review SQL and Python, investigate data, automate repetitive work, build analytical workflows, and increase the scope of what you can accomplish.We are looking for someone who is already actively experimenting with AI in their work and is excited by how quickly these tools are changing analytics. If you prefer traditional analytical workflows and are reluctant to incorporate AI into your day-to-day work, this role is unlikely to be a fit. \nWe are looking for someone who embodies being humble, hungry, and smart, meaning you take ownership, ask good questions, work well with others, and care more about finding the truth than proving yourself right. You should be comfortable with imperfect data, changing priorities, and live products where decisions need to be made with the best available evidence.\nWhat You’ll Do\nProduct and Game Analysis\nAnalyze player behaviour and product changes across the entire lifecycle (onboarding, retention, monetization, progression, LiveOps, and game economy health).\nRun deep-dive funnel, cohort, and segmentation analyses to identify friction points, drop-offs, and player spending patterns.\nTranslate ambiguous product questions into structured analyses, clear findings, and actionable recommendations.\nKano Analytics Stack & Data Quality\nWork hands-on with our AWS-based analytics stack (S3, Athena, DBT, Prefect) to create, maintain, and optimize robust ETL pipelines.\nWrite cost- and performance-aware SQL to build analytical views that make core datasets accessible to the wider team.\nProactively QA data pipelines and telemetry, identifying broken tracking, inconsistent definitions, or anomalies in event volume.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, and Design to architect tracking plans and define data telemetry before new features launch.\nExperimentation & AI-Enabled Workflows\nSupport the end-to-end design, success metric definition, and post-analysis of A/B tests and feature experiments.\nLeverage modern AI development tools to accelerate your SQL/Python scripting, workflow automation, and documentation.\nBuild reusable notebooks, scripts, and analytical workflows to scale insights across our small, remote-first studio.\nContinuously experiment with new AI capabilities and incorporate useful tools and workflows into how analytics work gets done at Kano. \nExperience\nRequired \n3+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, data science, analytics engineering, or a similar analytical role.\nStrong SQL skills, including window functions and DDL statements\nExperience working with a cloud analytics environment such as AWS Athena, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or similar.\nComfort working with S3-style data lakes, structured datasets, views, and analytical tables.\nAbility to use Python for analysis, data validation, scripting, or workflow automation.\nStrong analytical thinking and the ability to break vague questions into clear analytical steps.\nAbility to explain data in plain language and connect analysis to product, marketing, or business decisions.\nInterest in games, player behaviour, product design, monetization, engagement systems, and live-service products.\nHands-on experience using AI tools in analytical or technical work, with demonstrated ability to use them for SQL/Python development, analysis, research, automation, or workflow improvement while independently validating the quality and accuracy of your output. \nHigh ownership, strong follow-through, and comfort working in a small remote team.\nNice to Have\nExperience with AWS Athena, S3, Glue Data Catalog, S3 table buckets, Apache Iceberg, or similar lakehouse tools.\nExperience with analytics for free-to-play mobile games or consumer apps, including experimentation (A/B testing), player behavior, monetization, user acquisition, and marketing performance. \nExperience with QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar BI tools.\nExperience with Git, code review, documentation, or working in a technical team environment.\n\nSalary\nCAD $60,000 - $85,000\nThe listed pay range reflects the potential earnings for this role. Actual compensation will depend on experience, skills, and alignment with company needs, typically falling toward the midpoint for most candidates\nKano is a remote-first workplace with an in-person attendance requirement 2-6 times a year.\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive wages determined by market research \nUncapped profit share program\nHealth, dental and vision benefits \n3 weeks vacation to start\nPaid holiday shutdown in December\n12 paid Care Days per year\nYearly Continuous Improvement allowance \nA results-driven company with a compassionate culture\nOpportunity to work on game projects that are enjoyed by millions of players worldwide!\nAbility to make a difference. Have an idea? Talk directly with leadership about it instead of running through layers of bureaucracy\nAbout Kano\nSince inception, Kano has released twelve gaming titles (seven of which are live serviced today), with over 35 million downloads and close to $100M in sales.\nBootstrapped in 2008, and achieving profitability in 2009, Kano continues to grow its team, game portfolio and player base as an independent gaming studio, with hit games like Mob Wars, Idle Distiller and Monster Country. \nCanadian owned and full-remote, we believe in giving small teams of talented people challenging problems and getting out of their way. That’s why we look for the best and brightest to join our team; people who have talent, vision, and commitment.\nCheck out this article If you'd like to get some insight into our hiring process, our employee manual to understand how and why we do things the way we do, and this fun little video for an intro to the team! \nBetter Business Bureau Accredited Business 15 year Milestone\n2025 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2024 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2023 Great Place to Work Certified™\n2022 Best Workplace™ for Mental Wellness\n2022 Best Workplace™ in Canada - Less than 50 employees\n2022 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia\n2021 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia\n2020 Best Workplaces™ in Canada - Less than 100 employees\n2020 Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion\n2020 Best Workplaces™ for Mental Wellness\n 2020 Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia\n2019 Great Place to Work - British Columbia\n2019 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Finalist\n2018 VIATEC Company of the Year (11-49 Employees) - Winner\n2018 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Finalist\n2017 VIATEC Company of the Year (11-49 employees) - Finalist\n2014 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Winner\n*Kano is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law*","description_format":"text","description_chars":9348,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Design & Creative","Media & Entertainment","EdTech Platforms","STEM Education"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-07-10T21:27:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.47,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":98,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T03:57:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2213,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5448},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5448"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkano-game-product-analyst-analytics-ai"}]}