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Director of Product, Payments

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $68 billion in 2019 to $150 billion in 2025.

As the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

Who we're looking for:

Our product development team sets the vision for the Skillz player experience. Skillz is a mobile social gaming platform where players compete for real prizes. We build a player experience that is visually rich with tournaments, chat, leaderboards, payments and customer support.

In this role, you will play a leadership role in designing the payments experience and capabilities for players and developers. The Skillz checkout and payments capabilities sit at the core of the product experience. This role would own the payments product area globally, building capabilities across regions, countries, and currencies. If you are a product leader, deep thinker, and love to solve complex problems in a fast growing company, you would love this opportunity.

The leader will drive the user experience across player deposits, withdrawals, acceptance rates, chargebacks and payments fraud. You will collaborate with a strong cross functional team which includes engineering, design, data science, growth, marketing, developer advocacy, etc. You will lead product launches in multiple markets, and work on new products as well as future iterations. You will also contribute to building a successful product management organization and function at Skillz.

What you'll do:

• Own the Skillz payments product suite and funnel
• Collaborate with our Trust and Safety teams to help build payments features for our cross platform mobile SDK
• Own fraud prevention tools, chargeback rate, acceptance/declines
• Create wireframes, write design specifications, and present recommendations for new features in our ever evolving platform
• Perform analysis to optimize feature performance and propose product rollout plans to deliver improvements to our web products
• Work alongside teammates who care about building great products as much as you do

Your Skillz:

• 10+ years of experience in product management, product development, game design, data science, management consulting, quantitative analysis, or a similar field
• 5+ years of experience specifically in mobile product management and payments (Credit Cards, domestic/ACH-like payments, real-time payments, etc.)
• 5+ years experience performing quantitative analysis, preferably for a web, mobile, or other technology company
• Degree in math, statistics, engineering, computer science, economics or other quantitative field is preferred
• You are able to approach complex problems and convert them into simple and elegant solutions
• Domestic (US) payment product experience required, International payments experience is a plus
• Deep understanding of data analysis and using testing methods to inform decisions
• Strong communication skills and comfortable liaising between technical and non-technical partners
• Working knowledge of PCI compliance is a plus

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status and/or disability status.