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Head of Business Operations

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading marketplace platform that helps players discover mobile games and compete against other players around the world.

There are 2.6 billion people playing and competing in mobile video games, but the majority of game developers struggle to achieve break-through success due to rising customer acquisition costs and diluted discovery in the app stores. Skillz is changing the game by giving developers the platform, tools and support services they need to achieve higher player engagement, retention and revenue.

The company helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games, leveraging its patented technology to host over 2 billion tournaments entries for 30 million mobile players worldwide and distributing over $60 million in prizes each month.

Skillz is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings, as well as the National Football League’s investment arm, 32 Equity . The company has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , CNBC’s Disruptor 50 , Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups , Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies , and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

Our Culture:

We are true fans and believers of our product, so don’t be surprised when you see us playing Skillz games at our desks; in fact, that type of behavior is encouraged. You can catch us on Thursday nights playing anything from Counter Strike to Scrabble over dinner, while discussing new technologies or brainstorming ideas to improve our business. We’re working to build a truly groundbreaking company making eSports for Everyone. As the creators and leaders of a new marketplace for competitive tournaments, we all work with a “do whatever it takes” mentality, and frankly, we get the job done!

Our team is comprised of passionate, smart and creative individuals who consistently seek out new challenges and knowledge. We embrace out of the box strategies to propel our business. Our staff comes from diverse backgrounds and our leadership have funded, built and sold successful companies. We know how to scale disruptive technology companies and if you're up for the challenge, we would love you to join our team and help us shape the future of games and sports.

About the Team:

The Business Operations (“BizOps”) team is a nimble and highly impactful team that provides critical guidance, insights and strategic frameworks to the senior leaders responsible for our various functions and business units. The team operates like an internal consulting group to define and drive strategic, operational and organizational improvements across the company, creating the foundational business infrastructure that enables the company to efficiently scale.

Performance Expectations:

• Recruit a world-class team to support the hypergrowth of the organization
• Create a BizOps roadmap and lead the team to execute against this roadmap
• Deliver a long-term, company-wide planning framework jointly with Ops leadership
• Serve as the connective tissue across functional teams by managing rhythm of the business, working to share knowledge and drive people to achieve company goals
• Scale operational best practices across the organization

Your Skillz:

• Experienced Ops Leader - 12+ years of work experience in strategy, business operations, or similar roles in the technology sector
• Master of Information - Establishes the right rules of engagement that promote effective information sharing, enabling individuals to understand and react to top company issues
• Incredible Planner - Able to mobilize the company around a common vision through rigorous planning and ruthless prioritization
• Structured Problem Solver - Able to create & apply frameworks to solve problems and bring the appropriate level of structure that will help improve the overall operational excellence of the organization
• Strategic Thinker - Suggests strategically viable ideas within the context of the larger company strategy
• Builds Strong Teams - Able to build and manage lean teams with outsized company impact