Principal Analyst, Sports Analytics

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🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $141.5k - $188.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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BetMGM

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

💰 $25.1k Seed Round on 2022-10

Consulting • Marketing • Travel

BetMGM is the exclusive sports betting partner to MGM Resorts nationwide, offering both online and physical casino gaming experiences. As a leader in online casino and poker gaming, BetMGM also collaborates with sister brands such as Borgata Online and PartyCasino. The company is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and emphasizes responsible gambling practices, ensuring a sustainable and enjoyable gaming environment for its customers.

📋 Description

• Develop and own the analytics strategy for Sports, aligned with BetMGM's corporate strategy and business goals • Define and govern methodological standards for advanced modelling, statistical experimentation, measurement frameworks, and analytical quality • Lead complex, high-impact analytical models, including propensity, predictive, segmentation, bonus, and promotional evaluation models • Innovate with machine learning, Bayesian inference, causal modelling, survival analysis, and real-time streaming analytics • Serve as the organizational authority on sports wagering data structures, market logic, and bet type classification • Drive enterprise-wide data quality initiatives, including cataloguing, metadata, lineage tracking, and ETL/ELT optimisation • Operationalise analytical outputs across trading, product, finance, operations, and compliance • Establish the company-wide approach to statistical experimentation and impact measurement • Analyse strategic commercial priorities such as player economics, revenue concentration, VIP retention, promotions, and pricing changes • Originate analytical opportunities and manage a portfolio of high-impact workstreams with executive stakeholder accountability • Present findings and strategic recommendations to SLT and executive audiences • Advise commercial, product, trading, and finance leadership on data-informed strategic decisions • Lead and develop analysts across seniority levels and mentor the broader Data Analytics community • Maintain trusted-adviser relationships with executive stakeholders and identify future opportunities • Lead change management initiatives within the data department • Build and scale automation solutions and self-serve analytical capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial experience in analytics, data science, or business intelligence • Demonstrable track record of leading enterprise-scale, cross-functional analytical programmes independently and with executive accountability • Mastery of SQL, Python (or R), and data visualisation tools • Extensive experience building, deploying, and operationalising production-quality analytical models at scale • Proven track record of developing and executing analytics strategy aligned to business goals • Experience leading and delivering a portfolio of complex, high-impact projects simultaneously • Expert statistical foundation, including experimental design, causal inference methods, regression modelling, clustering, forecasting, and econometrics • Experience designing and deploying advanced segmentation, propensity, predictive, and causal models in a commercial environment • Ability to operate as the most senior individual contributor in an analytics function • Exceptional communication skills and strong executive presence • Deep expertise in machine learning, Bayesian inference, survival analysis, and reinforcement learning applied to customer or wagering data • Broad and deep knowledge of major professional sports leagues, betting markets, US sports wagering regulations, and the competitive iGaming landscape • Experience mentoring and developing analysts across multiple seniority levels • Strong working knowledge of cloud-based data platforms, including Snowflake and DBT • Experience leading data quality, governance, and pipeline optimisation initiatives • Prior experience in a regulated sports betting or iGaming environment is preferred • Business standard use of the English language • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without immigration sponsorship; this role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship • Applicable gaming licensing requirements, including comprehensive background checks • Compliance with and support for BetMGM's responsible gambling policies, procedures, and initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance • 401(k) with company match • Pre-tax spending accounts including health care FSA and commuter savings • Flexible paid time off • Professional development reimbursement and ongoing skills training opportunities • Employee resource groups • Swag, ticket giveaways, and more • Performance-based bonus plan