Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in gaming is seeking an Analytics Lead to join their dynamic Gameplay Analytics team. This role offers the opportunity to lead a talented group of Data Analysts, where you will drive impactful insights that shape the future of their games, particularly in the popular Battle Royale genre. You'll partner with various teams to harness data for strategic decision-making, while also mentoring your team and enhancing their analytics approach. If you have a passion for gaming and a strong background in data analysis, this is your chance to make a significant impact in an innovative environment that values creativity and collaboration.

Benefits

100% coverage for medical benefits

Dental and vision coverage

Critical illness insurance

Telemedicine services

Life and AD&D insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Short-term disability coverage

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Employee assistance program

Mental well-being program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analysis and live service video games.
• 2+ years managing a team of data professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Analysts to create data assets and insights.
• Transform raw data into models, metrics, and reports.

Skills

Data Analysis

Team Management

SQL

Python

Statistical Methods

A/B Testing

Data Visualization

Experimental Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Spark

GitHub

Airflow

Job description

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.