Discover What’s Possible at BetMGM
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
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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.
The Opportunity
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 workstreams, 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 workstreams 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, compliance, and
product teams rely on for critical decisions
• Drive enterprise-wide data quality initiatives in close partnership with data engineering and
architecture teams, leading workstreams on cataloguing, metadata,…