Insights Analyst - Valorant
Riot Games · Los Angeles, CA · 1 wk ago
AnalystFull-time
Responsibilities
- Support analyses that help teams better understand player behavior, motivations, sentiment, and engagement patterns across gameplay, community, creator, and live event experiences
- Contribute to retrospectives and ecosystem readouts around major launches, esports moments, seasonal beats, and player-facing initiatives
- Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and recurring analyses that help teams monitor player engagement, ecosystem health, and product performance across VALORANT experiences
- Pull, clean, validate, and organize large datasets using SQL and data visualization tools
- Partner with senior analysts and cross-functional teammates to support experimentation analysis, reporting, and other insight-generation efforts
- Help identify meaningful ecosystem trends, player pain points, and emerging opportunities through exploratory analysis and reporting
- Help communicate analytical findings and recommendations to audiences with a range of technical proficiencies
- Contribute to improving analytics workflows, reporting processes, and data quality practices across the team, including experimentation with emerging AI-enabled analytical tools and workflows
- Collaborate with teammates across Insights, product, publishing, and esports-adjacent functions to support player-focused decision-making
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field
- 2+ years of professional experience in analytics, management consulting, business intelligence, strategy, or related fields
- Working knowledge of SQL and experience working with large datasets
- Experience building dashboards or reports using tools such as Tableau, Hex, Looker, or similar platforms
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present findings to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional environments
- Familiarity with basic experimentation and performance measurement concepts
Desired Qualifications
- Deep familiarity with VALORANT and tactical shooter player culture
- Active engagement with competitive gaming communities, creators, esports, or live service game ecosystems
- Strong curiosity about how players engage with games across gameplay, social, community, and live event experiences
- Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages
- Experience working in gaming, entertainment, technology, or consumer-focused industries
- Adaptability and comfort working in fast-moving and evolving environments