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Senior Game Designer
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 $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 San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work, 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 You Will Do:
- Work alongside a cross-functional team (composed of other game designers, external game studios, project managers, account executives, analysts and account managers) to help source and design incredible games to grow the world's first mobile competition-as-a-service platform.
- Have a strong hand in evolving the game design strategy at Skillz and work with top studios to help design, implement and launch world-class games on the Skillz platform.
- Lead game iteration and optimization to maximize retention, player engagement, and monetization for our deep portfolio of competitive mobile games.
Your Skillz:
- 5+ years of game design experience in software, including at least 3 years of mobile game design and/or production experience. Strong preference for live service experience.
- Skilled at guiding the product development process: ideation, wireframing, design and implementation.
- Able to collate idea streams from across all stakeholders to drive future design.
- Must be a seasoned and polished professional to be able to work with Company Executives (internal and external).
- Systems design experience, including scoring systems, multiplayer competition, procedurally generated content, and equivalent game design tasks.
- Strong analytical bent, ideally, experience working closely with product managers to optimize live services in areas such as first time user experience, live service event optimization, and d1/d7/d30/d180 retention.
- Multitasking skills and comfort with managing numerous design projects in parallel.
- Experience designing for eSports or competitive multiplayer games is a major plus.
- Experience with 3rd party development is a plus.
- Experience as a game producer is also 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, or disability status.
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