Director, Player Protection & Compliance

🕒 June 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Skillz

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎮 Gaming

Consulting • Marketing • Gaming

Skillz is the leading mobile gaming platform that connects players and developers through fun, fair competition. It provides the opportunity for casual gamers to turn their skills into real money and prizes, with various games available for players to compete head-to-head or in tournaments. Skillz uses proprietary technology to ensure evenly-matched play, offering a platform where players can win cash and prizes while enjoying their favorite games.

📋 Description

• 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.