Product Analyst

About Skillz:

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, with the goal of building 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. www.skillz.com

Analyst Program at Skillz:

As a Product Analyst you will be a part of the Analytics professionals at Skillz, and you will work in domains such as:

• Designing, launching, and measuring new features on the Skillz ecosystem
• Running impactful A/B experiments to optimize the user experience
• Understanding trends in user satisfaction and feedback
• Driving improvements in internal processes and systems to enable the company to scale
• Assessing and improving game performance and player engagement of Skillz games

Overall you will function as a data-driven decision maker and executor, and deliver recommendations and events to drive Skillz forward. As a proven contributor at Skillz, you will ultimately have the ability to focus your path to domains that interest you and where there is a need for action-oriented strategic thinkers.

Your Responsibilities:

• Drive highly visible strategic projects, collaborating cross-functionally to structure problems, understand opportunities, and develop solutions 
• Flawlessly execute a roadmap of feature releases finding ways to learn from and engage our players to optimize their retention and lifetime value
• Own key areas of the business front-to-end, including execution and follow-through on product development initiatives
• Use storytelling skills to persuasively communicate your recommendations to senior executives and other stakeholders
• Support our understanding of customer behaviors and life cycles, such as user engagement, conversion, and churn
• Design, develop, and share reports and dashboards used by the entire company every day

Your Skillz:

• 2-5 years experience 
• Experience with SQL
• Inquisitive mindset with a major in marketing, business, economics, statistics, engineering, or mathematics preferred but not required 
• Experience performing quantitative and strategic analysis (preferably in product development, consumer marketing, or consulting preferred but not required
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that require significant collaboration between different departments, including both technical and business teams
• Self-starter with a ‘don’t take no for an answer’ attitude and strong communication skills 
• Ability to solve unstructured problems independently by developing and applying appropriate frameworks or techniques
• Honesty in developing and sharing insights gained from our user data
• Experience using data visualization platforms and connecting data insights to strategy
• Location: Work will be in office in San Francisco or Las Vegas