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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. As the first publicly traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games, and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The Skillz platform empowers developers to create 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 to build the home of competition for all.
Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. 
Skillz – The home of competition
Who we're looking for:
As an Associate Product Manager, you will own live events for Skillz. You will focus on delivering, designing, and implementing live events features that enhance the player experience and drive growth in key business metrics. Our platform thrives on competition and community, and we're excited to explore its full potential.
What you'll do:
Defining, communicating, optimizing, and executing the Live Game strategy, including events and sales.
Ensuring the game feels alive, appealing, and exciting daily, including in-game and external of-game communication channels
Initiate new Live Ops features and improvements. Working as an internal customer of the product team to develop those features and additions to the game.
Analyzing Live Ops and sales strategy via A/B Testing with the support of a highly skilled analytics team.
Drive A/B Test Backlog to improve new user cohorts
Act as the day-to-day primary point of contact for any product-related questions from the game team.
Review daily KPIs and proactively identify opportunities, trends, and threats to the product.
1+ years of experience in Project or Product management role
Experience analyzing and reporting back on Product KPIs
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite or Google Suite, specifically with formulas in Sheets or Excel.
Excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners.
Passion for gaming
Experience with Live Ops in Games
Experience building mobile gameplay, competition features and/or social experiences in social casino or puzzle games is a strong plus.
Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
Our Perks
Skillz offers competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants. Generous company-paid benefits, time-off, leave, 401k match, etc. Check out our career page for more information. Total compensation starts at $85,000. Actual pay will depend on varying circumstances, including leveling, experience, and location.
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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.