Senior Data Scientist — Gaming Analytics & Strategy

Epic Games; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k Match

Mental health support

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical

Life Insurance

Long Term Disability

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop strategic insights for Finance and Product leadership across the Epic ecosystem. You will maintain core reporting, build high-leverage data models, and inform planning with time-series forecasts.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and communication with senior leadership. You will own the data pipeline quality, understand product data deeply, and work closely with engineering to improve data accuracy.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or in a related field.
• Expertise with SQL and Python
• Familiarity with time series modeling
• Demonstrated skills in predictive analytics, especially within complex and high-dimensional environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience delivering presentations to senior leadership, including C-suite executives
• Demonstrated understanding of both contemporary video games and analytics best practices

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve core business reporting to analyze fluctuations across our core businesses — decomposing the underlying factors and isolating the causal influence of external events and internal activations
• Build, maintain, analyze, and leverage time series forecasting methods to anticipate ecosystem trends and inform Finance and Product planning
• Develop and maintain core data models leveraged by the entire department, improving consistency, efficiency, and analytical leverage across teams
• Perform executive deep dives on high-priority subjects relevant to the Fortnite ecosystem, translating complex analysis into clear narratives for leadership
• Build a deep understanding of our products and become an expert on all analytics data collected
• Take accountability for the quality of data reported by our products, and work with engineering and QA to consistently monitor and improve our data
• Support users of our self-service data pipeline, helping them understand the data they are using and teaching them appropriate methods to access and summarize it
• Collaborate with the ecosystem analytics team to enhance data-driven decision-making across the organization

Skills

SQL

Python

Time Series

Predictive Analytics

Executive Presence

Gaming Knowledge

Tools

Prophet

PySpark

Job description

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop strategic insights for Finance and Product leadership across the Epic ecosystem. You will maintain core reporting, build high-leverage data models, and inform planning with time-series forecasts.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and communication with senior leadership. You will own the data pipeline quality, understand product data deeply, and work closely with engineering to improve data accuracy.