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Principal Product Designer, Skillz App

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 e nabling 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 San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work , Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance , 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:

Are you an amazing designer who also wants to lead a team and grow in your career? Can you bring life to new ideas and show the value of design through quality, innovation and vision?

We’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to spearhead the creation of a new industry standard for competitive mobile gaming experiences.

Your passion for design leads you to create fresh new concepts that can change an industry. You take initiative and you find solutions to problems. The status quo is not sufficient. You are constantly looking for new ways to improve design and you expect the people around you to do the same.

You will report to the Head of Product Design [Chris DePizzol] and will be part of an industry leading design team focused on delivering the future of competition.

What You'll Do:

• Work end-to-end, tackling complex user needs from sketching to low and high fidelity prototypes
• Own feature designs that create engaging and immersive mobile experiences across multiple device types on iOS & Android
• Leverage solid design rationale to create intuitive platform experiences that engages and delights players
• Gain a deep understanding of our target users through observations, research, and analytics so that you can champion their needs
• Be the champion of our target users by deeply understanding their needs through observations, research, and analytics
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to deliver amazing and effective work
• Think about design as a system, contributing to and maintaining our design system in order to influence quality and efficiency for all our teams and products
• Drive design thinking within the larger Product Design organization and encourage various design-focused problem-solving methodologies

Your Skillz:

• 8+ years of professional experience as a UX or Product Designer
• You have successfully managed or led a team of designers for 4+ years
• Experience designing and delivering complex products/features from concept to launch
• Mobile design experience required
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong understanding of the design process and UX thinking with an emphasis on how users understand, learn, and engage with a product
• A portfolio that demonstrates mastery of the aesthetics of product design through the use of typography, color, imagery, layout, and grid systems
• Ability to manage deadlines and collaborate in a cross-functional environment
• Capable of supporting your designs with strong rationale, research, and effective communication