Data Science Lead

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a hands-on Data Science Lead to join the Gameplay Analytics team. You’ll lead a team of Data Scientists and Data Programmers and apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, to impact the direction of efforts across Epic’s portfolio of products and ecosystems, with a particular focus on our Shooters Games (Battle Royale, Reload, OG, Blitz). 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. ### 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), AI coding tools (Claude Code)
• 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

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including NYC).