Senior Sports Analytics Lead — Actionable Insights & Strategy

BetMGM; New Jersey; On-site; USD 92,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Pre-tax spending accounts (FSA)

Flexible paid time off

Professional development reimbursement

Employee resource groups

Swag & ticket giveaways

Job summary

BetMGM seeks a Sr. Sports Analyst to join the Sports Analytics team, enabling data-driven decision making across pricing, segments, VIP, and promotions.

You will partner with product, trading, operations, and finance to shape how BetMGM prices, structures, and delivers its sports betting offering. The role requires 4+ years in analytics, strong SQL and visualization tool skills, and the ability to present complex results to senior leaders in a regulated US gaming environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years commercial experience in analytics, business intelligence or data science.
• Advanced use and understanding of SQL and large complex datasets.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency in a programming language (e.g., Python, R)
• Demonstrated ability to build clear, stakeholder-ready dashboards and visualisations using tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI
• Strong analytical communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings to non-technical and senior audiences
• Experience leading analytical strategies across the commercial business
• Experience designing and analysing A/B or multivariate tests to evaluate commercial interventions
• Experience working with large and sometimes incomplete and complex data sets
• Expert understanding of sports and the sports betting industry in United States
• Prior experience in a regulated sports betting or iGaming environment is preferred
• Business standard use of the English language

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of actionable insights and analysis across bonus, VIP, trading, promotions, etc.
• Efficiently manage multiple short- and long-term projects at pace
• Lead the analytics strategy within the Sports Analytics team in collaboration with the Sports SLT
• Present analytical findings and strategic recommendations clearly to senior leadership
• Build and maintain a range of complex datasets, reports and dashboards
• Lead analytical work to measure, evaluate and optimize bonus and promotional spend
• Design and evaluate controlled experiments (A/B and multivariate tests) to drive incremental business value
• Build agents and automations to automate manual tasks and processes
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to a rigorous, high-performance analytics culture

Skills

Analytical thinking

Analytical communication

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Presentation to leadership

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

Excel

Job description

BetMGM seeks a Sr. Sports Analyst to join the Sports Analytics team, enabling data-driven decision making across pricing, segments, VIP, and promotions.

You will partner with product, trading, operations, and finance to shape how BetMGM prices, structures, and delivers its sports betting offering. The role requires 4+ years in analytics, strong SQL and visualization tool skills, and the ability to present complex results to senior leaders in a regulated US gaming environment.