Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

5 Months ago • 5 Years + • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Analytics Lead (Gameplay) at Epic Games, you'll lead a team of data analysts, using mixed methods to create data assets, reports, and insights impacting Epic's game portfolio, particularly Battle Royale. Responsibilities include partnering with design, development, and product teams; working with engineering to capture necessary data; transforming raw data into models and reports; evaluating metric effectiveness; designing and testing experiments; and mentoring your team. The role requires strong SQL skills, experience with data technologies, statistical methods, and visualization techniques, along with a proven track record in live service video games.
Must have:
  • 5+ years' experience in video game analytics
  • 2+ years team management experience
  • Strong product intuition and data-driven decision making
  • Experience instrumenting data and ensuring quality
  • Proficient in SQL, Python, and ideally Spark
Good to have:
  • Experience with A/B testing and experimental design
  • Advanced statistical knowledge
  • Full-stack data experience (ingest, ETL, storage, application development)
  • Familiarity with Github, Airflow
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability and life insurance
  • 401k with company match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ANALYTICS

What We Do

Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a hands-on Analytics Lead to join the Gameplay Analytics team. You’ll lead a small team of Data Analysts and apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, and insights to impact the direction of efforts across Epic’s portfolio of products and ecosystems, with a particular focus on Battle Royale. The successful candidate will have the ability to apply a range of data technologies, statistical methods, and visualization methods to influence development and product teams, to manage a small team and to partner with stakeholders across all parts of the business.

In this role, you will

  • Partner with design, game development, and product management counterparts to identify opportunities for our first party Games and the business and use data to develop metrics and insights that shape the execution of the strategy
  • Work directly with engineering and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required to unlock insights and data models
  • Transform raw data into data models, production metrics, reports and insights
  • Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and to align them with long-term ecosystem growth
  • Work with design, product, and analytics teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and learn from experiments to improve our games
  • Lead a small team of data analysts, help mentor them and set the direction of our analytics approach

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
  • At least 2 years of experience managing a team of data professionals
  • Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment
  • Experience with working with development teams to instrument data and ensure continued data quality
  • Experience with writing efficient and scalable SQL over billions of rows; it is a plus if you are familiar with distributed computing using Spark (Scala or PySpark)
  • Development experience in Python analytics ecosystem
  • Familiarity with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow)
  • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques
  • Advanced statistical training and a thorough understanding of the associated strengths and weaknesses of different statistical approaches is a plus
  • Experience in a “full-stack” environment - data file ingest, ETL, data storage interaction, application development, communication of results to storage systems, code version control is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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