VP of Data & Analytics

AGS

$150K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in data and analytics leadership, with 3+ years in a senior executive role
  • Experience building or transforming complex data warehouses or lakehouses
  • Expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Stack technologies
  • Strong foundation in data engineering and architecture principles
  • Proven experience in implementing data governance and quality frameworks
  • Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management skills
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field such as Computer Science or Data Science

Responsibilities

  • Own the company's complete data strategy from sourcing to governance
  • Architect and manage the data warehouse using Microsoft technologies
  • Integrate game development analytics with internal business reporting through a unified platform
  • Establish and enforce data governance standards and access controls
  • Develop data products like performance dashboards and analytics tools
  • Implement a telemetry strategy for predictive maintenance and operational efficiency
  • Support AI initiatives by ensuring robust data infrastructure availability
  • Cultivate data literacy within the organization, enabling self-service analytics

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training programs for skill development
  • Access to cutting-edge data analytics tools and technologies
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic gaming environment
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams across the organization
  • Support for professional growth and leadership development
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Overview

The VP of Data & Analytics is the senior leader responsible for AGS's entire data strategy, data
platform, and analytical capabilities. This role is responsible for end-to-end data ownership across game development analytics (game performance, player telemetry) and internal business functions (FP&A, operations reporting, commercial analytics). The VP of Data & Analytics will also ensure the same metrics and reporting is used across different functions and is a critical enabler of the agentic AI program, as every AI initiative depends on the clean, reliable data infrastructure this role builds and governs.

Responsibilities
  • Own AGS's data strategy end-to-end - data sourcing, data platform architecture, data
    products, data governance, and data quality across all functions
  • Own the data warehouse architecture - OneLake/Microsoft Fabric implementation, ingestion
    pipelines from ERP, CRM, game cabinets, and iGaming platforms
  • Bridge game development and internal functions - ensure game analytics (telemetry,
    performance data, player behavior) and internal analytics (FP&A, ops, sales reporting) are served by a unified data platform
  • Define and enforce data governance standards - data ownership, data classification, data
    quality SLAs, lineage documentation, and access controls
  • Build data products - operator-facing performance dashboards, executive scorecards, game
    analytics products that serve game designers and commercial teams
  • Drive the telemetry strategy - ensure cabinet telemetry data flows from AGS's deployed fleet
    into the data platform to enable predictive maintenance and yield management
  • Support the agentic AI program - ensure data infrastructure is sequenced and delivered to
    unblock ML model development and AI agent deployment
  • Manage vendor relationships - Microsoft Fabric, data tooling providers, and analytics platform
    vendors
  • Establish data literacy across the organization - training and enabling business users to
    access and use data through self-serve analytics tools like PowerBI

Skills/Requirements
  • 10+ years of progressive data and analytics leadership, with at least 3 years in a VP, Senior
  • Director, or Head of Data role
  • Proven data platform build experience - has built or significantly transformed a data
    warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse from the ground up at a company of comparable scale
  • Microsoft Fabric / Azure Data Stack expertise preferred - familiarity with OneLake, Azure
    Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Power BI
  • Strong data engineering foundations - deep enough technical understanding to review
    architecture decisions, evaluate engineering quality, and hire and develop data engineers
  • Data governance expertise - experience implementing MDM, data cataloging (Purview,
    Collibra, or equivalent), and data quality frameworks
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management - has served both technical teams (game
    developers, ML engineers) and business stakeholders (CFO, VP Sales) with data products
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field

Preferred
  • Gaming or B2B manufacturing industry experience
  • Familiarity with SAS protocol and casino management system data structures
  • Experience with game telemetry, IoT data, or distributed asset data strongly preferred- understanding of event-based data at scale

Note: All offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check

*Posted positions are not open to third party recruiters and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.

Job Snapshot
  • Location:

    Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Job Type:

    Executive/HR/IT
  • Date Posted:

    07/20/2026


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