Head of Product, Aarki

Job Description

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

Who we’re looking for:

Aarki - a Division of Skillz is looking for exceptional and experienced product management professionals to join our product team as Head of Product. The right Head of Product will be responsible for Aarki's product vision, roadmap and strategy. The head of product should not only be a hands on leader but also be able to inspire the product and engineering team to deliver best in class products for Aarki's clients.

What you’ll do:

• Own the product roadmap of Aarki - DSP, Data, ML, Creative Engine and integration with Skillz
• Work cross functionally with stakeholders to define the consumer product vision, strategy and roadmap for Aarki that is aligned with the overall business strategy.
• Hire, retain and manage a group of high performing global team of Product Managers and Product Analysts to achieve business unit KPIs
• A strategic thinker, who can own the overall plan, including design, implementation, GTM and analysis framework of features and functional refinements.
• Drive analysis of releases and share results through quarterly business reviews (QBRs); build a track record of delivering on forecasted outcomes.
• Work with the engineering leaders to estimate ship dates of major deliverables with a 75% or better accuracy.
• Team player and excellent communicator capable of clearly sharing feature development progress, metric impact, etc to a multi-functional group.
• Work with the Aarki GM and other key Skillz C-level execs to clearly understand the company mission and articulate that to the engineering and design teams.

Your Skillz:

• 10-15 years of experience building and delivering Ad Tech or Mar Tech focused products; DSP and SSP experience, particularly with Mobile and CTV products preferred
• Deep knowledge of Ad Tech ecosystem with focus on Mobile and CTV technologies
• A great communicator (oral, written, and visual) who has the ability to influence and build consensus both within a product team and with executive stakeholders across the company.
• Experience building B2B SaaS Ad Tech products with agency clients
• BA/BS and/or MA/MS in a related field; MBA preferred

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 .