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 experimentation capabilities, drive product understanding, and improve player experiences across their ecosystem (Fortnite, Epic Games Store, etc.). Responsibilities include developing analytics best practices, building experiment review processes, conducting proactive analysis on growth and engagement, socializing findings with leadership, and collaborating with data programmers. This role requires experience with scaled experimentation programs, hypothesis-based analysis, and comfort with statistical methods. You'll own solutions end-to-end, from metric design to iterative refinement.
Must have:
  • Experience with scaled product experimentation
  • Partnership 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% 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

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 programmers 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

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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