Principal Data Analyst

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 Principal Data Analyst to join the Product Analytics team focused on Fortnite. You'll apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, and predictive models to impact the direction of efforts across Epic's portfolio of products and ecosystems, with projects spanning across the Fortnite ecosystem. Your insights will shape the way players engage with content they love. The successful candidate will have the ability to apply a range of data technologies, statistical, machine learning methods, and visualization methods to influence development and product teams.
In this role, you will
• Partner with business leaders, product, design, game development, art, and engineering counterparts to identify opportunities to broaden and deepen engagement across Fortnite
• Work directly with analytics, engineering, and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required to unlock insights
• Transform raw data into insights and production metrics, reports, and models
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and align them with long-term ecosystem growth
• Work with design, product, and analytics teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and execute on experiments to improve the product
What we're looking for
• At least 7 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
• Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment
• Significant experience communicating findings and actions to executive teams
• Experience working with development teams to instrument telemetry
• Experience 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)
• Experience in data visualization (Tableau or similar)
• Comfort with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow)
• Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies and modeling/statistical methods to deliver results

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 here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-02vwxe-18-223-169-109-42 in your application.