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 36,000+ square foot headquarters. Enjoy free daily breakfast and catered lunch, 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

• 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 business—identifying 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 presence—aligning 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: $214,000 - $336,000

(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 Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming! Together, we'll 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!

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 .