Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

Epic Games; Old Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a hands-on Analytics Lead to guide a team in the dynamic world of gaming. In this pivotal role, you will harness the power of data to shape the future of first-party games and influence business strategies. Collaborating with design, development, and product management teams, you will transform raw data into actionable insights, ensuring the highest quality of data and metrics. This is an exciting opportunity to mentor a team while driving innovation and growth in a fast-paced environment. If you are passionate about gaming and analytics, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact in a vibrant industry.

Benefits

100% Employee Benefits Coverage

Supplemental Medical Coverage

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Telemedicine

Life and AD&D Insurance

Long Term Disability Insurance

Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics with a focus on live service video games.
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of data professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Analysts to create data assets and insights.
• Partner with teams to develop metrics and insights for game strategy.

Skills

Data Analysis

Statistical Methods

SQL

Python

A/B Testing

Team Management

Data Visualization

Product Management

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.