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 San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance, 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.

Who we're looking for

Skillz is looking for a Senior Vice President of Revenue to drive aggressive growth and expansion of the business. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll be responsible for effectively scaling the company’s existing revenue streams and launching new ones. You’ll lead a team driving triple digit growth of both players and game developers and oversee the company’s talent acquisition and management systems to drive the entire organization’s scale.

Reporting to the CRO, you are an elite-caliber professional who will be instrumental in the development and execution of the strategic and operational plans for one of today’s hottest media and entertainment companies. You will play a pivotal role in a business that has a growing network effect in an industry of billions of people. Your leadership will help make Skillz a service that is the pivotal focus of the gaming and entertainment industries for the next 10+ years.

To be successful you should have extensive experience managing sales, marketing and business development in a large high-growth entrepreneurial company. Ideally, you have either already lived through the hyper-growth of a multi-billion dollar public company, and are hungry to do it again bigger and better to create an industry-defining company!

Responsibilities & Competencies

Drive growth - Oversee sales, marketing and business development functions, deploying a nine figure annual budget to scale the Skillz developer and consumer ecosystems at efficiency
Develop the ecosystem - Set and guide strategy to optimize ecosystem retention, monetization and growth
Commercialize new revenue streams - Successfully launch and scale new revenue streams from brand sponsorship and advertising. Oversee the company’s first international product launches
Scale the team - Roll out highly efficient, process-driven talent management practices that enable uncompromisingly elite hiring and meritocratic performance management
Own the P&L - Ensure that the organization and its leaders are delivering ‘investable plans’ for each planning cycle (short, mid, and long-term) while being held accountable to results based OKRs and KPIs.
Build scalable processes - Build departmental systems and automate processes to enable the company to scale while achieving efficiency gains and quality improvements on a sequential basis.

Requirements

Previous executive experience at a hyper-growth company. Public company executive experience strongly preferred
Demonstrated ability to successfully launch new business lines
Deep experience overseeing sales, marketing, business development and operations
Proven ability to balance the day-to-day operations while driving strategic vision
Uncompromising eye for talent

Personal Attributes and Values

Self-confident, self-motivated, self-driven leader who will speak up and does not succumb to groupthink. Comfortable weighing in or articulating a contrarian point of view in a collaborative setting. Embraces healthy conflict based on a foundation of trust in order to reach the best possible outcome
Self-aware, collaborative, and open to feedback without becoming defensive or taking things personally
Straightforward, no-nonsense style. Calm and level-headed under pressure.
World-class communicator who leads by example and inspires teams at all levels of the organization
Impeccable integrity and ethical standards. Honest, honorable, straightforward, and accustomed to driving alignment with peers and colleagues

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