Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

6 Months ago • 5 Years + • Game Design

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 entire data lifecycle, from asset creation to insightful reporting impacting game development and business strategy, focusing on Battle Royale. Responsibilities include partnering with design and development teams, building data models, evaluating metrics, conducting experiments, and mentoring team members. The role requires strong SQL skills, experience with data platforms (ideally Spark), Python analytics, and a deep understanding of statistical methods and experimental design.

Must have:

5+ years experience in live service games
2+ years team management experience
Strong product intuition and data-driven decision-making
Experience instrumenting data and ensuring quality
Proficient in SQL and ideally Spark

Good to have:

Python analytics ecosystem experience
Experience with Airflow and Github
Advanced statistical training
Full-stack data experience

Perks:

100% employer-paid benefits for employees and dependents
Supplemental medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Robust mental well-being program
Retirement savings plan with employer match

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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!

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