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 $77 billion in 2020 to $150 billion in 2025.
As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SLZ) 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
Skillz is looking for a physical security leader to create a holistic global security program that ensures the safety of our team, offices and brand. This role will report to the Director, Workplace and partner with team members throughout the business to define and implement our security strategy to match the growth of our rapidly scaling business.
What You Will Do
- Define and develop global strategy, policies and processes to promote security and safety of the team, offices and brand. This will include but is not limited to executive protection, virtual- and office-related programs and guard services.
- Research, gain buy-in and implement systems including but not limited to access control, incident identification and reporting.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders in matters related to safety and security.
- Develop, manage and deliver upon safety and security related expectations, OKR’s and budgets.
- Produce and regularly distribute measurements to assess success of the safety and security program.
- Develop corporate resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity in partnership with key internal stakeholders.
- Identify and manage compliance and training programs related to safety and security.
- Conduct investigations and implement corrective actions.
Your Skillz
- 8+ years of experience in a strategic security and/or safety role
- Bachelor's degree or comparable experience in the field
- Experience building corporate security and safety programs
- Thrives in a fast paced environment without sacrificing excellence
- Proven success in delivering safety and security strategies/systems on time and on budget
- Creative and people oriented approach, just because something is done one way in the industry doesn’t make it the right approach for Skillz
- PSP, PSC and/or CPP Certification
- Ability to influence at all levels of the organization with analyses rooted in data
- Collaborative, doesn’t make decisions in a vacuum
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.
