About Skillz:

Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for a booming mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with access to fun and fair for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make esports accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 13,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host over 800 million tournaments for 18 million players worldwide.

This year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America. 

The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.

Who we’re looking for:

This position is a critical customer facing role with responsibility for revenue growth development and retention for Skillz’s largest and most important gaming publishers/developers/studios. We’re seeking a passionate Developer Account Manager with extensive, high-touch account and client management skills to become part of the developer success team within our large account portfolio.

The Developer Account Manager will be responsible for a small portfolio of clients, potentially with multi-regional footprints, and will focus on the use and adoption of our full suite of platform technologies and allied solutions, as they become available, and be the primary point-of-contact and trusted advisor to our clients over the long-term.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute account plans and strategies that support key business metrics including client retention, revenue growth and profitability.
• Become a trusted advisor with clients by deeply understanding their business and aligning their needs to our solutions.
• Provide expertise on our SDK, roadmap of technology and streaming offerings, assist on upgrade planning and advise on key features and functionality allowing the customer to execute their strategies for growth with us 
• As governed by the account planning process, serve as customer advocate internally, while effectively collaborating with internal, cross-functional teams including product management, customer support, engineering, sales operations and finance
• Lead ongoing strategic customer meetings to communicate and drive best practices, customer success and business results; facilitate quarterly business reviews & executive meetings
• Provide regular analysis of customer performance metrics to deliver consultative internal business reviews which result in strategic recommendations, best practices and process improvements to ensure the they derive maximum value from their investment i.e.ROI

Requirements:

• 3+ years of gaming and/or related SaaS/High Tech industry experience successfully managing and expanding Strategic Client Relationships
• Strong strategic consultative selling and customer relationship management experience focusing on Enterprise B2B and B2B2C customer segment
• Significant experience in engaging and facilitating dialogue with C-level and senior executives in SMB organizations
• Success in working in a “fast paced” environment leveraging using tools like Salesforce.com and formal sales methodologies like Miller Heiman/SPIN
• Excellent communication skills (written/verbal) that are leveraged to address complex business issues and opportunities
• Experience based “Issue Resolution” skills that facilitate dialogue across all levels of a business including the C-suite
• Strong individual contributor who desires results based performance
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills
• Bachelor’s Degree required

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.

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