Principal Analyst, Sports Analytics

Ready to make your career legendary? Join us as we bring the magic of Vegas to our players. The BetMGM team has over 1,400 talented members, revolutionizing sports betting and online gaming in the United States and Canada. We’re a brand with technology at our hearts and the most driven and focused talent in the business.

As a valued team member, we’re committed to giving you the resources and support you need to thrive. Our benefits and perks include:

• 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!

At BetMGM, we recognize that every individual plays a meaningful role in our success. That’s why we’re committed to building a respectful, inclusive workplace. It’s the strategy behind every win. By meeting people where they are, we create a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive and a workplace that reflects our values, our people, and our drive to win.

We are looking for an exceptional analytical leader to join our Sports Analytics team as a Principal Sports
Analyst. As the most senior individual contributor on the team, the Principal Analyst will set the strategic direction for Sports Analytics, serve as the definitive organizational authority on sports wagering data, and drive enterprise-wide analytical frameworks that shape commercial, product, and trading strategy. This role is responsible for transforming analytics from a reporting function into a true strategic differentiator for BetMGM’s Sports vertical.

The ideal candidate is a visionary analytical leader who combines deep technical mastery — including machine learning, predictive modelling, and advanced experimentation — with the executive presence and communication skills to influence at the highest levels of the organisation. They will champion a culture of data-driven decision making, mentor and develop the broader analytics community, and ensure that every insight generated drives measurable business value.

This is a highly cross-functional role requiring deep partnership with trading, product, operations, finance, and compliance teams. The Principal Analyst will originate new analytical opportunities, manage a portfolio of high-impact work streams, and maintain trusted‑adviser relationships with executive stakeholders across the business.

• Develop and own the analytics strategy for Sports, ensuring full alignment with BetMGM’s corporate strategy and business goals, and driving all analytics work streams to focus on business value rather than reporting
• Define and govern the methodological standard for the Sports Analytics team, establishing best practices for advanced modelling, statistical experimentation, measurement frameworks, and analytical quality that scale across the broader Data team
• Lead the design and delivery of the team’s most complex and high-impact analytical models, including next-generation propensity and predictive models, advanced segmentation frameworks, and sophisticated bonus and promotional evaluation models that quantify margin and ROI performance
• Innovate with leading‑edge analytical techniques — including machine learning, Bayesian inference, causal modelling, survival analysis, and real‑time streaming analytics — and oversee the development of new analytical tools and frameworks that extend the team’s capability
• Serve as the definitive organizational authority on sports wagering data structures, market logic, and bet type classification, providing expert guidance that engineering, trading,…