About this role
Role Overview
- Establish and operationalize a dedicated gaming compliance function, building the policies, processes, and infrastructure needed to support our business lines at scale.
- Lead end-to-end promotional compliance across all active and upcoming consumer-facing programs, including state registration and bonding, official rules development, eligibility enforcement, and prize fulfillment oversight.
- Own and maintain a company-wide compliance calendar, risk register, and incident escalation playbook, ensuring zero missed regulatory deadlines and full visibility into the company's compliance posture.
- Design and enforce a pre-launch compliance review gate for all new programs and product features with a compliance surface area, partnering cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and Legal to embed compliance into the launch process.
- Monitor the regulatory landscape across relevant jurisdictions, proactively identify rule changes impacting our operations, and lead remediation efforts before effective dates.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in compliance, regulatory affairs, or a related legal/operations discipline, with direct exposure to promotions, consumer gaming, or consumer-facing regulatory compliance required.
- At least 5 years of people management experience, including hiring and developing team members at varying levels.
- Demonstrated experience establishing and operationalizing a compliance function, including policy development, process infrastructure, and cross-functional program rollout, at a startup or high-growth company.
- Proven ability to operate as both a strategic leader and a hands-on practitioner, setting long-term compliance direction while personally executing on foundational work in the near term.
- Deep knowledge of gaming regulation, promotions compliance, and/or skill-gaming regulations across U.S. jurisdictions, with the ability to translate legal complexity into operational practice.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, building structure where none exists, and making sound decisions without fully formed processes or precedent.
- Able to drive compliance adoption across Product, Marketing, and Operations without direct authority, balancing rigor with business enablement.
- Strong ability to assess, prioritize, and communicate compliance risk to senior stakeholders, distinguishing between critical exposure and manageable risk.
- Track record of hiring, developing, and managing compliance professionals, with the ability to build a high-performing team from the ground up.
Benefits
- 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.