Principal Data Scientist

1 Month ago • All levels • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Data Scientist at Epic Games, you'll leverage your expertise to enhance Epic's experimentation capabilities, drive product understanding, and improve player experiences. You'll be part of the Core Analytics team, developing analytics capabilities and technologies used across Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and more. Responsibilities include developing best practices for analytics, building experiment review processes, conducting proactive analysis on ecosystem-wide growth, socializing findings with product leaders, and partnering with data engineers. The role requires experience with scaled product experimentation, partnering with product owners, and comfort with statistical methods used in experimentation. You'll be responsible for end-to-end solutions, from designing metrics to building pipelines and iterating continuously.
Must have:
  • Experience with scaled product experimentation
  • Partnering with product owners for impactful analysis
  • Proactive approach to analytics in product development
  • Comfort with statistical methods in experimentation
  • End-to-end solution ownership
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability and 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

Use your expert experience in data & analytics to advance Epic’s experimentation capabilities, drive rigorous product understanding, and deliver an outstanding experience to our players. You will be a member of Epic’s Core Analytics team, charged with developing the analytics capabilities and technology leveraged by our full ecosystem of products including Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and more.

In this role, you will

  • Develop and socialize best practices for the use of analytics to improve the player experience across Epic, especially through A/B testing
  • Build an experiment review and readout process to ensure high quality experiments and continuous learning
  • Facilitate proactive analysis on ecosystem-wide growth & engagement challenges, partnering with specialist analytics leaders from around the company
  • Socialize findings with product leaders and executives to ensure impact
  • Partner with data engineers to ensure efficient architecture for analytics needs

What we're looking for

  • Experience with scaled product experimentation programs where testing is on the critical path to delivering an outstanding user experience
  • Experience partnering with product owners to land impact through rigorous, hypothesis-based analysis
  • Proactive approach to analytics as a key function in product development
  • Comfort with common statistical methods used in experimentation
  • Comfort owning solutions end-to-end: designing metrics, building logging specs, developing pipelines, conducting analysis, building readouts, and continuously iterating

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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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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