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Legal Ops Analyst
1 year ago
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 $86 billion last year to $161 billion in 2025.
As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) 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 Best Workplaces for Innovators , San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work , Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance , 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:
Skillz is looking for a passionate and talented Legal Ops Analyst to join our Legal team! Working in tandem with counsel and business partners, you will be the foundation of the team. Everything you do impacts how effective our team is at achieving our goals. Your day to day will include project managing legal requests, budgets, and streamlining processes for the Legal team. You are a self-starter, love teamwork, and thrive in ambiguity. You’re diligent when it comes to reviewing legal documents and invoices in the first instance, assisting with various corporate and compliance initiatives where needed, and building processes to help us operate more efficiently. You are data-driven and can lead the establishment and tracking of legal department metrics. Our Legal team is growing and the ideal candidate is organized, professional, and committed to building the future of esports!
What You Will Do:
- Manage all parts of the legal billing process, including matter management, budget assignment, approval workflows, and payment confirmation
- Work with the FP&A team to develop quarterly and annual budgets for the Legal team
- First line of defense on the main legal inbox to ensure all requests are attended to, handled, and project managed
- Assume lead on file management through contract management software
- Team lead on goal creation and management for the Legal team, including OKR drafting on a quarterly basis, managing team check-ins, and working with BizOps to draft slides and talking points for quarterly business reviews with leadership
- Team lead on establishment and tracking of legal department metrics and KPIs
- Preparing plan and materials for outside counsel partnership review, including metrics to measure performance, spend against budget, criteria for assessment, and areas of opportunity to improve partnership
- Develop, own, and optimize legal processes by utilizing project management tools, contract management software and more; you’re a creative problem solver
- Partner with other departments to support the needs of the Legal team
Your Skillz:
- At least 3 years of experience in legal operations, including experience with budget management
- Previous in-house legal support experience preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including keen attention to detail
- The ability to synthesize and organize complex requests with ease and to multi-task in highly demanding, deadline driven environments
- Experience with corporate matters, litigation, or intellectual property is preferred
- Exceptional judgment and logical reasoning
- Professionalism and a positive attitude
- Comfortable liaising with outside counsel and business partners
- Demonstrated discretion handling confidential information
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of eBilling software, GSuite, Word, Excel, Ironclad, DocuSign, and Adobe Acrobat
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, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .
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