Full-Time
Vice President Analytics
Updated on 9/10/2026
skillz
201-500 employees
Platform for cash-prize competitive gaming
No salary listed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hybrid
Onsite or hybrid in Bengaluru, India.
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- At least 14 years of experience in analytics or data science, including at least 6 years leading multi-team organizations with managers reporting in.
- Experience owning analytics for a consumer product with a real-money, wallet, or transactional economy; experience in real-money gaming, fintech, marketplaces, or online gambling is strongly preferred.
- Experience consolidating multiple analytics or business intelligence functions into a single organization and building and governing a semantic or metric layer at scale using Snowflake or an equivalent platform, with company-wide adoption.
- Experience running a mature experimentation program that includes holdout and incrementality methodology, with demonstrable influence on monetization or acquisition decisions.
- Experience operating as a credible peer to Product, Growth, and Engineering leadership across multiple product lines, with comfort working amid ambiguity and organizational restructuring.
- Ability to maintain measurement rigor under commercial pressure and distinguish directional reads from causal analyses.
- Ability to structure analytics around the business's economic model and demonstrate organizational design and economic thinking.
- Depth in experimentation and causal inference, including holdout design, incrementality, cannibalization testing, and judgment about experiment cost.
- Ability to maintain independence while preserving effective partnerships.
- Ability to communicate with executives and translate measurement into decisions for a senior leadership audience.
- Fluency in player-economy concepts including deposits, wallets, incentive burn, tier migration, lifetime value, and matchmaking fairness.
- Own Skillz Platform analytics across the software development kit and Arena, leading roughly ten people across four sub-functions with four direct reports.
- Establish and govern a single source of truth comprising the metric dictionary, the Snowflake semantic-layer contract, definitional change control, and reconciliation between the network profit-and-loss statement and venue scorecards.
- Specify and implement the lifecycle marker on which install-to-second-payment, install-to-stable, and customer-acquisition-cost-to-stable metrics depend.
- Establish holdout-based incrementality as the default standard for campaigns, promotions, incentives, and channel spend, and reject analyses that do not use it.
- Serve as the independent scoring authority for the economy, including cash, Z, Ticketz, and matchmaking, against guardrail bands set by the Vice President of Strategy.
- Ensure every stage of the profit-driver chain and both product surfaces has a named analytics owner, a live baseline, and a defined cadence.
- Build and lead the Competitive and Market Intelligence function, providing leadership with an external benchmark for every internal target.
- Partner as a peer with Product, Growth, Engineering, Data Engineering, Player Trust, and Financial Planning and Analysis, and represent analytics in quarterly planning and the weekly leadership ritual.
- Hire, develop, and retain the analytics team; build a leadership layer and reduce key-person risk related to integrity and reconciliation.
- Experience in real-money gaming, fintech, marketplaces, or online gambling is strongly preferred.
Skillz operates a mobile gaming platform that lets players compete in skill-based games for real-money prizes via tournaments and head-to-head matches. Players join through the Skillz app, pay entry fees, play, and win cash prizes; the company earns revenue from entry fees, in-app purchases, and advertisements. It also provides game developers with integration tools to add their titles to the platform and monetize through competitive play. Its goal is to broaden access to real-money competitive gaming, expand its game catalog, and grow the mobile esports market.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Las Vegas, Nevada
Founded
2012
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue rose 23% year over year to $31 million.
- RZR topped $10 million quarterly revenue and posted its fourth profitable quarter.
- August 2026 debt redemption cut $80 million principal and saved $2.8 million interest.
What critics are saying
- Skillz owes $50 million due December 15, 2026; refinancing failure crushes liquidity.
- Q2 2026 paying monthly active users fell 8%, exposing fragile core demand.
- Papaya appeal or collection failure erases the $730 million judgment, ending the turnaround story.
What makes skillz unique
- Skillz's patented tournament stack and payments infrastructure still anchor mobile cash competition.
- March 2026 Pro SDK and Beamable backend expand developer control beyond contests.
- June 2026 CFO hire Robert Walsh signals tighter capital markets discipline.
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↑ 0%Skillz (NYSE:FIRY) upgraded at wall Street Zen. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Skillz (NYSE:FIRY - Free Report) from a strong sell rating to a sell rating in a research note published on Monday,Wall Street Zen reports. Separately, Weiss Ratings began coverage on Skillz in a report on Monday, July 6th. They issued a "sell (d-)" rating for the company. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of "Hold". Skillz price performance. Discover more Company Earnings Shares of Skillz stock opened at $9.96 on Monday. Skillz has a fifty-two week low of $2.23 and a fifty-two week high of $20.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $165.45 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2.25 and a beta of 4.59. The company has a 50 day moving average of $9.37. Skillz (NYSE:FIRY - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, August 13th. The company reported ($1.52) earnings per share for the quarter. Skillz had a negative return on equity of 66.50% and a negative net margin of 60.23%.The company had revenue of $30.99 million for the quarter. Quarterly earnings forecast Institutional inflows and outflows. Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of FIRY. NewEdge Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Skillz during the 1st quarter worth about $73,000. Hsbc Holdings PLC boosted its holdings in Skillz by 17.6% in the first quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 11,856 shares of the company's stock valued at $29,000 after acquiring an additional 1,774 shares during the last quarter. Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio increased its position in Skillz by 496.5% during the 4th quarter. Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio now owns 11,929 shares of the company's stock valued at $51,000 after purchasing an additional 9,929 shares during the period. Squarepoint Ops LLC lifted its position in shares of Skillz by 122.6% in the 4th quarter. Squarepoint Ops LLC now owns 80,054 shares of the company's stock worth $345,000 after purchasing an additional 44,092 shares during the period. Finally, Hudson Bay Capital Management LP acquired a new position in shares of Skillz in the 4th quarter worth approximately $55,000. 19.42% of the stock is owned by institutional investors. Discover more Daily news headlines Stocks & Bonds Political news subscription Skillz company profile. Skillz Inc is a mobile games platform that enables developers to build competitive, skill-based games and allows players to compete against one another in real-time contests. The company provides tools and services designed to help game studios add tournament-style gameplay, player matching, and social competition features to mobile titles. Through its platform, Skillz hosts and powers multiplayer competitions across a range of casual game genres, with an emphasis on monetization through paid contests and in-game competition. Receive News & Ratings for Skillz Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Skillz and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter. Discover more Political commentary blog Financial results analysis
Firy Inc., formerly Skillz Inc., reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $31.0 million, up 6% sequentially and 23% year-over-year. The company posted a net loss of $24.5 million. RZR, part of Firy's portfolio, surpassed $10 million in quarterly revenue for the first time and delivered its fourth consecutive profitable quarter. Adjusted EBITDA loss, excluding litigation expenses, narrowed to $2.7 million from $7.1 million in the first quarter. The company announced it redeemed $80 million of debt in August, leaving approximately $50 million outstanding. Firy has federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $702 million. In July, a court entered judgment of $719 million against Papaya Gaming, plus approximately $10 million in fees and costs.
A US federal court has ordered Papaya Gaming to pay $719 million to Skillz Platform Inc., a subsidiary of Firy Inc. (NYSE: FIRY), in a false advertising case. The disgorgement represents Papaya's unjust profits and replaces the $420 million in actual damages awarded by a jury in April 2026. The court found that Papaya used bots to falsely advertise prize money between 2021 and 2024. Evidence showed that approximately 70% of $6.7 billion in advertised prizes, roughly $4.7 billion, was never paid to customers because Papaya's bots won instead. Papaya deployed more than 13 million bot participants compared to roughly 11 million real human players. The court also awarded Skillz approximately $10 million in legal fees. Papaya's post-trial motions challenging the verdict were denied. The original jury verdict was the largest false advertising award in US history under the Lanham Act.
Skillz Inc reported Q1 2026 revenue of $29 million, up 33% year-over-year but down 3% quarter-over-quarter. The company's adjusted EBITDA loss widened to $13 million, though excluding litigation expenses, the loss improved 15% to $7 million. Paying monthly active users fell 9% quarter-over-quarter to 128,000, whilst average revenue per paying user increased 7%. The company secured a major legal victory against Papaya Gaming, with a jury awarding $420 million in damages for false advertising. Skillz ended the quarter with $185 million in cash and faces $130 million of debt due by year-end. Management attributed the decline in active users to reduced user acquisition spending whilst focusing on retaining high-value, long-term customers. The company recently acquired Beamible to enhance platform infrastructure.
Skillz, a mobile games platform, reported first quarter 2026 revenue of $29.1 million with a net loss of $10.9 million and adjusted EBITDA loss of $12.8 million. The company had 128,000 paying monthly active users with average revenue per user of $76. In April, a federal jury found competitor Papaya Gaming liable for false advertising, awarding Skillz $420 million in actual damages under the Lanham Act, with potential total awards ranging up to $1.2 billion. The court has ordered settlement discussions, with a final ruling expected in June. Excluding litigation expenses, adjusted EBITDA improved 15% quarter-over-quarter. Skillz ended the quarter with $185 million in cash and continues evaluating strategic alternatives whilst working towards sustained profitability.