About Skillz
Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with democratized access to fun, fair and skill-based competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make eSports accessible to anyone, anywhere with a mobile device.
Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 13,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host over 800 million tournaments for 18 million players worldwide.
This year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America.
The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.
Who We're Looking For
Skillz is looking for an exceptional and experienced Director of Product Design to lead product design at Skillz. The right leader will know how to build a design organization, instill a culture of excellence and passion, and deliver amazing world class experiences for end users and developers.
You’ll lead a team of design leaders and designers in 3 offices to create the future of digital competition. This will be done in collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Program. The right leader will be able to form strong relationships with other functions and influence the entire team to execute effectively.
It's critical that the Director be able to establish credibility at the executive level, have a strong design viewpoint, and be able to lead the design direction of the entire company.
What You'll Do
- Lead and evangelize a UX vision for all Skill product experiences
- Manage a distributed team of Product Designers that build the UX across the entire company
- Build out the product design team at Skillz and nurture top talent
- Develop a world class design culture that is inspiring and innovative
- Create product design and testing processes to create beautiful functional designs that have been rigorously tested
Your Skillz
- You have 10+ years of experience designing and delivering user-centered, engaging experiences across a range of platforms and can demonstrate the success and impact of your efforts for both users and business.
- Including 5+ years of management experience, including experience leading large design teams of 20+ people within a cross functional organization.
- A leader who people want to follow. You build trust, inspire, and mentor designers and design managers.
- A leader who possesses deep knowledge of user-centered design methods, experience working in design systems, and a highly refined visual design sensibility.
- A great communicator (verbal, written, and visual) who has the ability to influence and build consensus both within a design team and with executive stakeholders across the company.
- BA/BS and/or MA/MS in a relevant design field
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 and/or disability status.
