About the Role

If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career!

Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.

At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!

Why Skillz

• Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value, obsess over our product, and make a difference in the world.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your dependents. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more.

• Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.

• Time off: We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays, to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

• Las Vegas Headquarters: Skillz strongly believes in a five-day a week, collaborative office environment at our 36,000+ square foot headquarters. Enjoy free breakfast and catered lunches, snacks,a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, team bonding events and many more. 

• Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.

• Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup, and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling, and that also pertains to your growth. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead Forecasting, Annual Planning and Long-Range Planning for the B2B business.

• Drive Financial Performance & Margin Expansion Initiatives.

• Enhance Financial Modeling, Reporting & Business Driver Visibility.

• Own Headcount Planning, Cost Modeling & Executive-Level Reporting.

Key Competencies 

• Experience in owning a full P&L, including revenue, COGS, gross margin, operating expenses, and contribution margin analysis.

• Strong commercial acumen with experience identifying revenue growth levers and margin optimization opportunities. 

• Have worked closely with Product teams to evaluate roadmap investments, build business cases, and assess ROI, payback, and strategic trade-offs.

• Ability to partner with leadership on pricing strategy, revenue performance management, and cost optimization initiatives. 

• Durable/Resilient. Comfortable with building from the ground up.

• Impact-driven. Both industry and personal success/wealth.

• Roll up your sleeves attitude. Intellectually curious and loves problem solving.

• Ability to "raise the bar" in financial planning and analysis.

• Fluency in process creation, automation, and data, including proficiency in SQL.

• Not afraid of conflict. Willing to say “no” to bad investments and hold others accountable to the plans and financial budgets. 

Experience

• At least 7+ years of experience in Investment Banking, management consulting, or FP&A roles.

• Has experience in owning the full P&L and top-line modeling. Comfortable with data and working through ambiguity .

• SQL experience. Knows how to retrieve data and information from snowflake. Tableau experience is a plus.

• Consistent track record of success as proven by business results and in-company promotions.

Total Starting Compensation: $179,000

Location: Onsite, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 

Travel Requirement: None

Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!

Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. We look forward to having you on board!

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