Chief of Staff to CEO

About the Company

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.
• Las Vegas Headquarters: Skillz strongly believes in a five-day a week collaborative office environment at our 36000 square foot headquarters. Enjoy free daily breakfast and catered lunch snacksa full-size gym with showers commuter benefits insurance team bonding events and many more.
• Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies CNBCs 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:

• CEO decision support: Distill complex cross-functional inputs into crisp briefs recommendations and clear next actions for the CEO and senior leadership team.
• Strategic analysis & modeling: Build decision frameworks and multi-layered financial models to evaluate investments partnerships and strategic initiatives (e.g. scenario analysis ROI sensitivity cases).
• Priority management: Rapidly assess competing priorities identify what matters most and drive alignment on timelines owners and expected outcomes.
• Executive operating rhythm: Lead the cadence of leadership meetings (agenda-setting pre-reads notes action tracking) ensuring decisions turn into accountable execution.
• Cross-functional execution: Drive critical high-impact initiatives from concept to delivery by coordinating stakeholders removing blockers and ensuring measurable results.
• Operational leadership: Improve workflows and operating processes across the businessidentifying inefficiencies redesigning processes and delivering cost speed or quality gains.
• Research & insights: Use data market research and competitive intelligence to inform CEO decisions especially in technology/media/telecom and adjacent sectors.
• Project management oversight: Manage complex multi-workstream projects with clear business impact; track milestones dependencies risks and mitigations.
• Influence without authority: Lead through strong relationships and executive presencealigning leaders and teams even when incentives or viewpoints differ.
• Communication & alignment: Serve as a connector between the CEO and the organization; translate strategy into clear messaging for senior leaders and broader teams.
• Confidentiality & discretion: Handle sensitive information with maturity and care; operate effectively under pressure and tight timelines.
• Tool-driven rigor: Create high-quality materials in PowerPoint/Excel/Word including executive narratives dashboards models and stakeholder-ready updates; leverage operational/project tools as needed.
• Industry-facing support (preferred): Support CEO initiatives connected to the gaming ecosystem (partnerships market analysis industry trends) where relevant.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex information into clear actionable insights for senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to use data and research to support sound decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly assess competing priorities identify what matters most and surface the most critical insights or actions for executive decision-making.
• Highly collaborative with strong interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and Word; familiarity with project management and operational tools is a plus.
• Comfortable building decision frameworks and financial models to support investment partnership and strategic decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term strategic goals with near-term execution consistently delivering measurable outcomes.

Experience:

• 5 years of experience in private equity investment banking or a hedge fund ideally with a focus on the TMT (technology media telecom) sector.
• Direct experience analyzing investment opportunities involving complex project management and building multi-layered decision and financial models.
• Hands-on experience managing operations projects or workflows with clear business impact.
• A track record of driving process improvements that reduced costs increased efficiency or improved delivery.
• Proven ability to perform in high-pressure environments requiring discretion confidentiality and fast thoughtful problem-solving.
• Experience in the gaming industry (Preferred)

Total Starting Compensation including Base Bonus: $214000 - $336000

(Skillz also offers a competitive equity package in addition to base and bonus).

Location: On-site in Las Vegas NV or Hybrid in New York NY

Travel Requirement: Up to 50% of the time between Las Vegas New York San Francisco and Bangalore India.

Join Skillz and Lets Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!

Together well create a world where skill passion and innovation thrive. Join our team and be part of the journey. We look forward to having you on board!

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