Principal Insights Analyst - Central Pubsports Insights

Riot Games • Los Angeles, CA

8d

About The Position

The Insights discipline helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We're an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists from all sorts of backgrounds who join together to represent and advocate for gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is essential to Riot living up to our player-focused mission. We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed. As a Principal Insights Analyst for Central PubSports Insights at Riot, you will leverage data and competitive intelligence to inform the strategic direction of high opportunity areas within the PubSports organization at Riot. You'll create a technical foundation for timely, high-quality insights, collaborating with game insights leadership to facilitate their reporting needs as well as cross-Pubsports measurement systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in data analytics, business strategy, management consulting, or related fields
• Proven experience designing and scaling KPI frameworks and experimentation systems in a matrixed or otherwise complex environment.
• Applied experience in large-scale data analysis, such as significance testing, clustering (e.g., k-means, latent class analysis), regressions, propensity score matching, and other advanced statistical methods as needed.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python/R, data modeling, and dashboarding tools (e.g. Tableau, Hex). Demonstrated track record of data warehousing and operationalizing analytics systems across business units or product lines.
• Experience working with data engineering, product leadership, publishing teams, and senior stakeholders to align on metrics and delivery. Proven experience leading complex, strategic projects across multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong executive communication skills with a demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership. Proven ability to present to and partner with both technical and non-technical audiences, including data engineering teams and senior management.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AI/ML models for workflow optimization and automation.
• Experience mentoring individuals in their craft or discipline, and growing them into seniority.
• Graduate degree in analytics, statistics, engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define, centralize, and steward KPI systems and dashboards across game teams and Pubsports functions.
• Operationalize cross-game segmentation models and player journey frameworks in combination with Ecosystem Insights, Pubsports game-oriented leads, and additional cross functional teams.
• Partner closely with data engineering as an embedded function to implement scalable pipelines and integrations for content and platform performance tracking, including implementing AI and automation experimentation to improve speed and quality of reporting as needed.
• Identify as well as investigate key problem or opportunity spaces and formulate recommendations and strategies for whether and how to pursue these.
• Collaborate with initiative producers and Insights teams to understand the product context and steward changes on the ground.
• Serve as an analytics craft expert across Pubsports insights, including looking for ways to uplevel and upskill the team, bringing new methodologies and expertise areas to the group, and holding a strong craft bar for quality of skill sets.

Benefits

• Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules.
• We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees