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Principal Insights Analyst - Central Product Insights
Riot Games INC · 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 33 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Riot Games INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Insights Analyst” (Data Scientists) in CA: $124k–$159k, median $134k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 33 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is essential 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 Principal Insights Analyst on Central Product Insights (CPI), you will leverage deep expertise in game analytics to help our games deeply understand their products & players and advance our collective skill in understanding our portfolio’s performance. You'll partner with leaders on game insight teams across the portfolio and lifecycle. You’ll conduct a wide range of complex analyses to help us understand the health of our products, players, and game experiences either individually or in partnership with analysts on game teams. You’ll build and manage scaled analytics tools, dashboards, and datasets that empower stakeholders across Riot’s entire portfolio. Responsibilities: • Tackle complex & impactful game analytics problems across the Riot Games portfolio including foundational cross-game analytics, product health deep dives, and investigations into multi-game player behaviors and patterns • Apply machine learning and statistical modeling techniques to uncover insights in player behavior, forecast product performance, and support ecosystem-level strategies • Contribute to the development and refinement of analytics tools, dashboards, and datasets that support portfolio decision-making, in partnership with senior stakeholders • Mentor and develop game analysts on CPI • Work with central and game teams to drive consistency and efficiency in key reports • Partner closely with Data Engineering to productionalize central analytics tables and pulls • Model and mentor best practices in analytics craft, supporting the growth of fellow analysts and elevating overall analytical quality across the team and insights organization • Proactively identify player and business opportunities through deep analytical and strategic thinking Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or a related discipline plus at least 8 years of relevant experience (an advanced degree can account for up to 2 years of experience) • 2+ years experience applying analytics to games or other live-service products • Strong analytical skills across the entire stack (Tableau, SQL, Python/Pyspark) • 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 projects which require coordinating multi-party worksteams • Ability to own and drive workstreams collaboratively with cross functional partners across game design, engineering, data engineering, and product Desired Qualifications: • Experience working with competitive PvP titles • Experience with developing and maintaining scalable data warehouse schemas and architecture to support analytical reporting needs. • Experience developing and deploying statistical or machine learning models • Advanced degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Management Information Systems, a related discipline, or compara