Sr. Analyst, Sports Analytics
BetMGM is looking for a sharp, analytically driven Sr. Sports Analyst to join the Sports Analytics team. The role supports a culture of data-driven decision-making, providing actionable insights and recommendations while identifying key opportunities and efficiencies within the sports business, including areas such as segmentation, VIP, bonus, pricing, margin, and sport or league performance.
The ideal candidate is a motivated analytical thinker who thrives in collaborative environments to inform key business decisions. This cross-functional role requires partnership with product, trading, operations, and finance teams to generate insights that directly shape how BetMGM prices, structures, and delivers its sports betting offering.
- Lead the development and delivery of actionable insights and analysis in response to key business questions across bonus, VIP, trading, and promotions.
- Efficiently manage and deliver 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, translating quantitative outputs into actionable business narratives.
- Build and maintain a range of complex datasets, reports, and dashboards.
- Lead analytical work to measure, evaluate, and optimise bonus and promotional spend.
- Design and evaluate controlled experiments, such as 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.
- 4+ years commercial experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data science (required)
- Advanced use and understanding of SQL and large complex datasets (required)
- Advanced use of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint (required)
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python or R (required)
- Demonstrated ability to build clear, stakeholder-ready dashboards and visualisations using tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI (required)
- Strong analytical communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings to non-technical and senior audiences (required)
- Experience leading analytical strategies across the commercial business (required)
- Experience designing and analysing A/B or multivariate tests to evaluate commercial interventions (required)
- Experience working with large and sometimes incomplete and complex data sets (required)
- Expert understanding of sports and the sports betting industry in the United States (required)
- Prior experience in a regulated sports betting or iGaming environment (preferred)
- Business standard use of the English language (required)
- 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 and ticket giveaways
- Performance-based bonus plan
BetMGM is a leading US sports betting and online gaming operator, formed in 2018 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, it holds exclusive access to MGM's land-based and online sports betting, poker and casino businesses across the United States and Canada. The company operates the BetMGM, Borgata Casino, Party Casino and Party Poker brands and is one of the largest operators in the regulated North American market. Its products combine online sportsbook, casino and poker with MGM's nationwide network of casinos.