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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!

The Role

The Creative Director role is critical to scaling Skillz's brand and performance growth by owning creative strategy, execution, and operational excellence end-to-end. It ensures brand consistency, accelerates performance outcomes on the Competition platform, and drives efficiency across people, process, and spend. Without this role, creative execution becomes fragmented, slower, and less effective - directly impacting growth, customer experience, and ROI.

Responsibilities 

• Define and lead the creative vision across performance, lifecycle, and brand, ensuring consistency, quality, and measurable impact on growth and engagement.

• Oversee end-to-end creative production for brand and Competition platform initiatives, embedding scalable processes, quality standards, and speed.
• Define guardrails and best practices for AI-assisted creative, balancing speed, cost efficiency, and originality across UA, lifecycle, and brand initiatives.

• Serve as the senior creative performance lead for the Competition platform, translating brand foundations into high-performing creative across channels.

• Build, lead, and develop a world-class in-house creative organization, setting structure, roles, and a high creative bar.

• Own creative investment strategy, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor selection, and cost-per-asset optimization.

• Partner cross-functionally with Growth, Product, and Brand leaders to prioritize initiatives, align resourcing, and embed creative into planning and launches.

Key Competencies 

• Strategic creative leadership with a strong performance and brand mindset

• Data- and AI-informed creative decision-making, leveraging experimentation, performance insights, and emerging tools to drive impact

• Operational excellence and ability to scale creative systems efficiently

• Strong people leadership, accountability, and cross-functional influence

• Exceptional visual storytelling and quality judgment

Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Design, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in creative roles, with 5+ years in senior creative leadership

• Experience integrating AI or automation into creative workflows to improve speed, scalability, or cost-per-asset is strongly preferred.

• Proven experience leading creative operations, production, and efficiency initiatives

• Strong portfolio demonstrating both creative excellence and leadership impact

• Mobile gaming experience preferred; mix of agency and in-house experience strongly preferred

Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $269,393

Location: Hybrid, San Francisco 

Travel Requirement: 10-20%

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. 

Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!

Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. We look forward to having you on board!

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