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, a