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Head of Administrative Services
2 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 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators , San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work , Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance , 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:
Skillz is looking for an experienced Head of Administrative Services to build and standardize administrative and workplace operations across the company. The ideal candidate for this role is a proven people leader with the innate ability to develop effective administrative and workplace strategies within a fast-growing technology company.
What You Will Do :
- Recruit and manage world-class administrative, workplace and information technology teams to support the hyper growth of the organization
- Create a global administrative, workplace and information technology roadmap, including real estate portfolio management, health and safety, and security, and lead teams to execute against this roadmap to make Skillz more efficient and effective
- Collaborate with executives and senior leadership across the organization to identify and deliver the required administrative and workplace support
- Develop and maintain Skillz’s administrative policies and procedures, ensuring productivity and efficiency across company workflows
- Establishes the objectives, scope of service, structure, staffing, work methods, and performance standards for workplace, IT and executive administration teams
- Draft and implement an annual administrative and workplace budget
- Promote a culture of collaboration, feedback, communication, hard work, and support to cultivate a positive work environment that celebrates success in work and mission
- Evaluates and monitors areas for production quality, cost effectiveness in resource allocation, and efficiency in operations
- Builds an executive administration team that provides maximum leverage for our executives and supports our organization.
- Create surveys, analyze data and provide ongoing improvements in response to feedback to deliver Stakeholder Satisfaction with Workplace programs. Deliver positive ROI against these programs.
Your Skillz:
- Experienced Administrative Leader - 8+ years of work experience in developing comprehensive administrative and workplace strategies for fast-growing and operations intensive tech companies
- Master of Information - Establishes the right rules of engagement that promote effective and concise information sharing, enabling individuals to understand and react to top company issues. The ideal candidate should understand identity management, security concepts, networking, cloud and SaaS architecture.
- Incredible Planner - Proven ability to run and deliver results on large-scale, complex technical projects across several sites under tight deadlines through rigorous planning and ruthless prioritization
- Structured Problem Solver - Able to create & apply frameworks to solve problems and bring the appropriate level of structure that will help improve the overall administrative excellence of the organization
- Results Oriented - Able to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and drive the team to outstanding results
- Builds Strong Teams - Able to build and manage lean teams with outsized company impact
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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