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Sr. Technical Program Manager, Hardware

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:

Our Research and Development department sets the vision for the future of the Skillz player experience in new arenas and the Hardware team is the latest addition. Skillz is a mobile social gaming platform where players compete for real prizes. We build a player experience that is visually rich with tournaments, chat, leaderboards, payments and customer support. In this role, you and the Hardware team will be building the physical representation of the Skillz brand by bringing new types of gameplay to millions of players through the development of a variety of hardware initiatives.

As Senior Technical Program Manager on the Hardware team you will be responsible for scoping and delivering large projects from prototyping through production. You will coordinate design/engineering/implementation initiatives between internal teams and manufacturing partners to develop optimal solutions for new hardware products. You will be expected to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, budget considerations, while communicating goals, areas of responsibility, and desired results to internal stakeholders and external resources.

As Senior Technical Program Manager on the newly formed and quickly growing Hardware team you will be wearing many hats - flexibility is key in this role at this stage. Initially, you’ll be asked to dive into the weeds and tackle everything from Industrial Design to Electrical Engineering challenges. As we hire for those specialized roles you and the other team members will be instrumental in recruiting and selecting the right candidates for the open positions on the team.

What you’ll do:

• Work with engineering, design, and procurement teams to schedule and implement technical programs, product development, process improvements and operational activities.
• Identify risks and blockers, proactively communicating those to stakeholders. Actively seeking resolution to those issues while driving successful achievement of milestones.
• Build strong relationships across functional disciplines and teams within Skillz. Build prioritization and requirements based on input from stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement on schedules, team efficiency, process refinements and vendor performance.
• Manage and drive complex, fast-evolving hardware components during early development, both in-house and by third-party vendor partners
• Ensure components and products are built to consumer specifications including FCC, drop testing, ergonomics, EMI, etc. and identify solutions to issues in early development phases and at manufacturing partners during production.
• Conduct retrospectives while continually assessing and incrementally improving internal processes and tools.

Your Skillz:

• 8+ years of experience managing complex consumer electronics products with aggressive schedules and cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and visual communication skills, both technical and nontechnical.
• Ability to identify and act on opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency
• Skilled at creating and tracking development schedules across multiple products and managing roadblocks from early development through prototyping to production.
• Proficient with the processes surrounding ID, EE and ME prototyping and development.
• Experience with mass manufacturing, production ramp up, design for manufacturing and assembly line processes.
• Experience working with and implementing JIRA, Adobe CC, Fusion 360 and Solidworks across organizations.

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, citizenshipveteran status and/or disability status.