Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a hands-on Analytics Lead to join their Gameplay Analytics team. Leading a small team of Data Analysts, you'll manage the lifecycle of data assets, reports, and insights impacting various Epic products, especially Battle Royale. Responsibilities include partnering with design and development teams to identify opportunities, working with engineering to capture data, transforming raw data into actionable insights, evaluating metric effectiveness, and leading A/B testing. The ideal candidate possesses strong product intuition, experience with SQL and potentially Spark, and a background in influencing product direction through data-driven decisions.
Must have:
  • 5+ years industry experience in live service video games
  • 2+ years managing data professionals
  • Strong product intuition & data-driven decision making
  • Experience instrumenting data & ensuring quality
  • Proficient in SQL (billions of rows)
  • Python analytics ecosystem experience
Good to have:
  • Experience with Spark (Scala or PySpark)
  • Familiarity with Airflow and Github
  • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing
  • Advanced statistical training
  • Full-stack experience (data ingest, ETL, etc.)
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid benefits for employees and dependents
  • Supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness coverage
  • Telemedicine, Life & AD&D, long-term disability insurance
  • Weekly indemnity (short-term disability)
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match
  • Robust mental well-being program

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

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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