Analytics Lead (Gameplay)

Epic Games; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking an Analytics Lead for their Gameplay Analytics team in Toronto. This pivotal role involves managing data analysts, shaping analytics approaches, and transforming complex data sets into insights and metrics that drive product development and business strategies across their portfolio. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data technologies and a strong background in live service environments, with a focus on gaming. Exceptional benefits including full medical coverage, mental health programs, and retirement plans make this an exciting opportunity for passionate analytics professionals.

Benefits

100% health benefits for employees and dependents

Robust mental health program

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Telemedicine coverage

Critical illness and AD&D insurance

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of industry experience in live service video games.
• Covered by 2+ years managing a data team.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and A/B testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead the gameplay analytics team, mentoring and directing analytics approach.
• Transform raw data into actionable insights, metrics, and reports.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to harness data for strategic insights.

Skills

Data Analysis

Team Management

SQL

Python

Statistical Methods

A/B Testing

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Github

Job description

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.