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Manager of Workplace
3 years 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 $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.
What We’re Looking For:
This role requires an experienced leader in workplace strategy, project management and data analytics. You will be the bridge between business requirements and workplace execution.The ideal candidate is detail oriented, a thoughtful collaborator and a creative self-starter. If you have strong hands-on experience delivering highly aligned projects, building new systems, and thinking up new ideas to promote workplace effectiveness, this role is for you.
What You Will Do :
Physical Workplace Design and Project Management
- Partners during real estate acquisition phase to appropriately develop ROM budgeting pre-lease signing and align internal stakeholders
- Oversees selection of design firm and PM on each office build project
- Oversees workplace design to support the workplace strategy as well as operations and team needs
- Influences leaders around the business to drive alignment on physical space deliverables and measures of success
- Oversees the external project manager driving decisions around schedule and budget that benefit the business
Workplace Systems
- Identifies workplace systems to support scalability for the workplace team. A few examples include (but are not limited to):
- Space Planning / Workplace Management System
- Ticketing
- CMMS
- Envoy - Visitor and Logistics Management
- Sensors
- Real Estate Management Software
- Collaboration Tools
- Represents workplace in implementation of systems in partnership with IT
- Develops education and change management to effectively utilize systems
Data
- Identifies data sources to help influence workplace decisions towards improving effectiveness of in person and virtual environments
- Workplace team workload identification
- Real estate commitments
- Effectiveness of differing space types
- Under or overutilization of spaces
- Share data with stakeholders to influence business decisions. Support individuals and teams to make decisions on their workspace based on data.
Your Skillz:
- 5+ years of experience in workplace
- 3+ years of experience in analytics
- Thrives in a fast paced environment without sacrificing excellence
- Proven success in delivering workplace projects on time and on budget
- Skilled at analyzing raw data and developing presentations/stories to influence decision making at all levels in the business
- Bachelor's degree
- Creative approach, just because something is done one way in the industry doesn’t make it the right approach for Skillz
- Self motivated and can figure out anything
- Collaborative, doesn’t make decisions in a vacuum
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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