Senior Game Analytics & Insights Leader

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Sr. Principal Insights Analyst for Central Product Insights (CPI) in Los Angeles to elevate game analytics across Riot’s product portfolio.

You will shape cross‑game health analyses, build scalable analytics tools, and mentor analysts while partnering with data engineers and product stakeholders. You’ll oversee rigorous analyses, communicate strategic insights to executives, and drive standardized analytics craft across Riot’s games.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant analytics experience (an advanced degree can account for up to 2 years of experience)
• 3+ years experience working directly in analytics on games
• Strong analytical skills across the entire stack (Tableau, SQL, Python/Pyspark)
• Meaningful familiarity with game design/direction and product strategy
• Experience conducting analytics to answer product or portfolio strategy questions
• Experience synthesizing & socializing analytics results and distilling results into impactful recommendations for product/executive leadership
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with the strong ability to collaborate effectively at all levels and departments of the organization.
• Able to work independently and lead complex projects which require coordinating multi‑party worksteams
• Ability to own and drive workstreams collaboratively with cross functional partners across game design, engineering, data engineering, and product
• Strong communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Tackle the most complex & impactful game analytics problems across the Riot Games portfolio including foundational cross‑game analytics, product health deep dives, and investigations into multi‑game player behaviors and patterns
• Lead the development of new, scaled analytics‑based insights tools, dashboards, and datasets focusing on common game behaviors and play patterns, in collaboration with stakeholder needs across the portfolio and central executive leadership
• Mentor and develop game analysts, both on CPI and across the portfolio
• Work with central and game teams to drive consistency and/or efficiency in key reports, recurring or one‑off analyses, and shared design/strategy analytic lenses
• Partner closely with Data Engineering to productionalize central analytics tables and pulls, and to guide the ongoing development of central data infrastructure meant to serve the needs of game analysts
• Uphold game analytics craft standards across the portfolio, ensuring rigor and consistency / comparability
• Drive improvements on tools & processes to maximize analysts’ efficiency and effectiveness across the portfolio
• Support game leadership on staffing and workforce management for game analytics across the portfolio
• Partner with insights leadership to ensure the craft of game analytics is well‑supported across Riot overall

Skills

Analytical mindset

Communication

Collaboration

Mentorship

Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or related

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Python/Pyspark

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Sr. Principal Insights Analyst for Central Product Insights (CPI) in Los Angeles to elevate game analytics across Riot’s product portfolio.

You will shape cross‑game health analyses, build scalable analytics tools, and mentor analysts while partnering with data engineers and product stakeholders. You’ll oversee rigorous analyses, communicate strategic insights to executives, and drive standardized analytics craft across Riot’s games.