Sr. Principal Insights Analyst - VALORANT

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 players around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of players is critical 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 Sr. Principal Insights Analyst on VALORANT, you’ll join the Insights discipline – the group of researchers, analysts, data scientists, and strategists responsible for solving problems and executing analyses that enable Rioters to make difficult decisions with confidence. You’ll leverage industry-leading expertise in game analytics to deeply understand the VALORANT audience, game, and ecosystem. 

This role focuses on answering some of our hardest questions on VALORANT as well as playing an integral part in mentoring and growing the next generation of analytics leaders across Riot. You will set the bar for analytics excellence at Riot through your industry-leading caliber deliverables, setting the standard for best practices, and unlocking new skill sets for future analysts. The Insights team supports products through their entire lifecycle: from opportunity identification, product development, and post launch performance. You will operate as part of the VAL Insights team, reporting to the Insights Lead, and frequently provide findings and push recommendations forward to designers and leadership across the product.

Responsibilities:

• Tackle the most complex & impactful game analytics problems across VALORANT studio including cross-game analytics, product health deep dives, and highly specialized design analytics questions
• Lead projects across analytics and research to help answer critical product questions
• Engage with senior leadership to highlight player needs and drive product change through your work
• Partner with product leaders to prioritize their efforts - accounting for delivery timelines, revenue impacts, and opportunity costs
• Communicate strategic recommendations and product outcomes to business leaders and decision makers
• Work collaboratively with a cross functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers
• Raise the analytics craft bar across Riot by mentoring senior analytics talent 
• Lead analytics discipline initiatives (e.g. tooling improvements, setting best practices for novel analytics methods) to continually improve the foundation of the analytics discipline at Riot

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or a related discipline plus at least 10 years of relevant 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 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, and product
• Strong communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with competitive PvP titles 
• Advanced degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Management Information Systems, a related discipline, or comparable work experiences

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.