Contract Unity Game Developer Jobs in Nevada (NOW HIRING)

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 

• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to define the consumer product vision, strategy, and roadmap for achievements and social game modes aligned with the overall company product roadmap and business strategy.

• Maintaining tech & relationships with 3rd party services, particularly in Payments.

• Analyze performance and diagnose issues: Use data to identify trends, investigate anomalies, and drive improvements (e.g., matchmaking, fraud, reliability).
• Run experiments and make data-driven decisions: Design A/B tests, evaluate results, and guide rollouts based on impact.

• 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 team to estimate ship dates of major deliverables with 75% or better accuracy.

Key Competencies 

•  Durable/Resilient - comfortable with messy/building from the ground up

•  Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Strong analytical mindset: Use data to diagnose problems, define success metrics, run experiments, and make decisions-especially around matchmaking, fraud, and performance.

• Data-driven monetization mindset: Understand game economies and optimize for retention, fairness, and revenue through experimentation and insights.

• Cross-functional execution & ownership: Lead across engineering, data, and business teams, drive roadmap decisions, and deliver reliably in a complex, high-stakes environment.

Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Analytics, Business, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of product management experience
• 1+ year working on payments or payments-related services
• Strong analytics skills with proven ability to work with complex datasets, establish meaningful KPIs, and turn rigorous analysis into clear insights & compelling narratives.
• Strong Market Research & Services Assessment - Experience and proven ability to gather, analyze, and apply market research and individual tools assessments to inform roadmaps.

Nice to Have 

• Mobile gaming experience strongly preferred.

• Proven track record delivering impactful consumer-facing product features

Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus: $138,262

Location: 100% Onsite in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 

Travel Requirement: Less than 10% 

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