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.

Skillz is pioneering the competitive mobile gaming experience, leveraging its patented technology to power over two billion esports tournaments a year. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises.

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:

We are currently looking for an experienced and integrated business partner to support the Product Organization. Being an integrated part of the FP&A team to help drive short and long-term financial analytics and company product initiatives. This is a high-visibility position that involves supporting the leadership team. The ideal candidate will be partnering with different areas of the organization drive insight into relative resource allocation via data and activity analysis to provide Product leaders with greater understanding and insight into their organization

What You Will Do:

Embed within the Product organization, acting as a liaison between the Finance and Product teams
Develop KPIs, metrics and dashboards to guide insight into operational efficiency for operational groups within Product
Drive thought leadership on building and maintaining a rolling forecast of current and future spend to track towards strategic objectives & businesses
Develop operational plans to drive alignment across the Product, R&D, and Infrastructure teams
Develop financial models, track and analyze financial KPIs, uncover trends and assess business risks and opportunities to provide recommendations to senior leaders
Drive the annual budgeting processes and monthly/quarterly forecasting activities in conjunction with Product & Engineering leadership and their teams; prepare and analyze plan variances based on actual performance
Seek opportunities for operational improvement across the organization

Your Skillz:

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation a plus.
Extensive experience with leading, executing and communicating actionable quantitative and qualitative financial analysis to drive key business decisions
5+ years of relevant work experience in FP&A; preferably in Product/Engineering
Display initiative in anticipating and meeting or exceeding the business demands of senior-level executives
Thrive in a fast-paced environment and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.
Prior experience working in a fast paced and rapidly-changing environment
Skilled at building relationships and influencing at all levels of management and across functions
Intermediate SQL / Database experience
Intermediate dashboard building experience
“Can do” attitude and team player

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.