Pense fora da caixa. Que tal trabalhar numa empresa de vídeo-games, como a Valve?

Pode ser como economista:

Economist

Valve’s multi-player games, as well as Steam (Valve’s successful trading platform), have allowed for the spontaneous emergence of complex virtual, yet quite real, economies. These economies are replete with rich trading patterns, fascinating ‘institutions’ (which have also sprung up organically), socio-economic conventions, and, generally, a host of economic phenomena that partly reflect what we observe in the analogue world and partly constitute new and unexplored behavioural patterns.

The task of a Valve economist is to make good use of the incredible wealth of data concerning these social economies, to pose fresh questions about their workings, and to generate methods for converting new knowledge about these economic vistas into tangible ideas that help improve our customers’ experiences.

Duties:

• Research, design, develop, and validate economic models to explain user behavior for all of Valve’s products.
• Design experiments to validate experimental hypotheses for in-game economies.
• Provide insight into short- and long-term behavioral patterns of participants in virtual economies.
• Inform decision-making at Valve by providing quantitative and economic rationale for various lines of inquiry.
• Create new avenues of analysis based on existing economic metrics, as well as generating new domains of data to collect and investigate.
• Collaborate with our business development team to improve the performance of existing pricing strategies and incentives for our customers and partners.

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Economics or related field
• Advanced knowledge of statistics
• Four years experience with:
  • Econometrics/data-mining or related field
  • Relevant analysis techniques that inform the creation of economic models

Recommended:

• Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, SQL, PHP, or equivalent

Ou como estatístico:

Statistician

One thing we have a lot of at Valve is data. Lots and lots of data. And we love using all that information to make better decisions. To help us do that, we’re looking for an experienced statistician who can perform quantitative analyses on all aspects of Valve’s gameplay, financial, and company data. Intrigued? You’d get to use your extensive statistical knowledge, along with practiced data-mining skills, to derive insights from the immense volumes of data we collect. In addition, you’d improve Valve’s existing metrics collection and analysis techniques by formulating new lines of inquiry into untracked metrics and creating best practices for the analysis of all collected data.

Duties:

• Research, design, develop, and validate statistical models to explain past behavior and to predict future behavior across all Valve products.
• Uncover latent trends in user behavior by mining existing statistical databases.
• Generate new lines of inquiry by creating novel metrics to incorporate into our existing tracking databases.
• Inform decision-making at Valve by providing quantitative rationale for various decision alternatives.
• Empirically evaluate financial projections and game design hypotheses.

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Statistics or Applied Mathematics (or equivalent) field
• Extensive proficiency with one or more of the following pieces of data analysis software: SPSS, Systat, Matlab, R, or equivalent
• Four years experience with:
  • Statistics/data modeling in an applied context
  • Relevant statistical techniques to inform the creation of predictive models

Recommended:

• Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, SQL, PHP (or equivalent)