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Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience

About Skillz

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry, by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The Skillz platform empowers developers to create 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, with the goal of building the home of competition for all.Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. www.skillz.com

What We’re Looking For:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to work in our Developer Experience product organization responsible for ensuring best in class experience for developers building on Skillz’s industry-leading competition platform.

The person will know how to inspire and lead in a high-performing organization to deliver amazing world class experiences for our game developer community. You’ll lead work alongside a team of product managers, designers, and analysts to create the future of digital competition. You'll partner with the Head of the Product, on the product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy for our developer ecosystem initiatives.

What You Will Do :

• Drive vision, execution and adoption of the Skillz developer platform by delivering a best-in-class developer experience. Own the product roadmap and deliver on key metrics such as dev conversion rate, adoption time, and developer support operational metrics.
• Enable and champion the Platform & Developer Experience initiatives, covering client and server SDK experience, 3rd party integrations, API standards, documentation, sample code and customer dashboards.
• Think Big! Foster innovation and experimentation, delivering software solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations. Solve the problems of today while thinking about tomorrow.
• Encourage and guide the team in their support of developer communities around the world and to use the knowledge the team gains to build amazing developer experience.
• Care deeply about people, diversity and equity. Attract, retain and grow top talent across a globally distributed organization.
• Communicate the vision of the product to internal and external audiences.

Your Skillz:

• 10+ years of experience building and delivering developer-centered experiences; be able to demonstrate the success and impact of your efforts for both users and business.
• Experience engaging, developing and owning global developer communities, with hand-on experience of building developer-facing products such as APIs/SDKs.
• A leader who people want to follow. You build trust, inspire, and mentor your team.
• A great communicator (verbal, written, and visual) who has the ability to influence and build consensus both within a product team and with executive stakeholders across the company.
• BA/BS and/or MA/MS in a related field.
• Experience building video game developer tooling/services, game engines or mobile gameplay experiences at a platform level.