Principal Data Analyst

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Principal Data Analyst for their Fortnite Product Analytics team. This role involves the entire data lifecycle: creating assets, reports, insights, and predictive models. The analyst will partner with various teams (business, product, design, engineering) to identify engagement opportunities within the Fortnite ecosystem. Responsibilities include transforming raw data into actionable insights, developing production metrics and reports, evaluating metric effectiveness, designing and executing experiments (A/B testing), and working with development teams to implement telemetry. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with SQL, data visualization tools, and statistical/machine learning methods.
Must have:
  • 7+ years experience in relevant industry with live service games knowledge
  • Strong product intuition and data-driven product influence
  • Experience communicating findings to executive teams
  • Experience with development team telemetry instrumentation
  • Efficient and scalable SQL (billions of rows); Spark experience a plus
  • Data visualization (Tableau or similar)
  • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing
Good to have:
  • Code version control (Github)
  • Orchestration (Airflow)
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision, LTD, life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Robust 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 Principal Data Analyst to join the Product Analytics team focused on Fortnite. You’ll apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, and predictive models to impact the direction of efforts across Epic’s portfolio of products and ecosystems, with projects spanning across the Fortnite ecosystem. Your insights will shape the way players engage with content they love. The successful candidate will have the ability to apply a range of data technologies, statistical, machine learning methods, and visualization methods to influence development and product teams.

In this role, you will

  • Partner with business leaders, product, design, game development, art, and engineering counterparts to identify opportunities to broaden and deepen engagement across Fortnite
  • Work directly with analytics, engineering, and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required to unlock insights
  • Transform raw data into insights and production metrics, reports, and models
  • Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and align them with long-term ecosystem growth
  • Work with design, product, and analytics teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and execute on experiments to improve the product

What we're looking for

  • At least 7 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
  • Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment
  • Significant experience communicating findings and actions to executive teams
  • Experience working with development teams to instrument telemetry
  • Experience 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)
  • Experience in data visualization (Tableau or similar)
  • Comfort with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow)
  • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques
  • Ability to learn and apply new technologies and modeling/statistical methods to deliver results

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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