Manager, Learning and Development

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### **About the Company** 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! **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. **About the Role** As Manager of Learning & Development, you will design and scale programs that help employees and leaders grow, perform at their best, and build successful careers. Your work will shape a high-performance culture and drive business impact through stronger capability across the organization. **Responsibilities** - **Enterprise Learning Strategy & Function Leadership.** Lead and architect the end-to-end Learning & Development function at Skillz, defining the strategy, operating model, governance, and roadmap aligned to company KPIs. Build and scale a high-performing L&D team, ensuring clarity of ownership, curriculum standards, and measurable business outcomes. - **Performance Acceleration & Early Career Enablement.** Drive improvements in employee performance across the lifecycle, accelerating time-to-productivity and strengthening the first 90-day onboarding experience. Design and implement scalable onboarding and manager enablement interventions that measurably improve ramp speed, performance attainment, and retention. - **Manager Capability & Organizational Effectiveness.** Elevate manager effectiveness by defining competency frameworks, leading manager development programs, and embedding performance rigor across the organization. Act as both a strategic advisor and hands-on program leader to ensure managers are equipped to drive high performance and accountability. - **Learning Measurement & Business Impact Accountability.** Establish a robust learning measurement framework that ties training initiatives to tangible business metrics (performance distribution, retention, productivity, manager effectiveness). Deliver regular executive-level reporting and ensure L&D investments produce measurable impact across business units. **Key Competencies** - **Strategic L&D Architecture.** Demonstrated ability to design and stand up an enterprise learning function from strategy through execution, aligning development programs to business outcomes in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments. - **Business Impact Orientation.** Strong analytical mindset with the ability to connect learning initiatives to measurable performance, retention, and productivity outcomes. Comfortable partnering with People Operations, FP&A, Analytics, and business leaders to quantify impact. - **Manager Development & Performance Expertise.** Deep expertise in performance management, manager enablement, and organizational effectiveness. Ability to coach senior leaders while also designing and deploying scalable training programs. - **Change Leadership & Organizational Agility.** Proven ability to lead change initiatives, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive adoption of new programs in startup or scaling environments. - **Operational & Tactical Execution.** Hands-on leader who can facilitate training, design curriculum, and build tools when needed, while simultaneously operating at a strategic level. Balances high-level orchestration with detailed program execution. - **Team Leadership & Talent Development.** Experience building and leading high-performing teams, establishing clear performance standards, coaching team members, and ensuring continuity and scalability of core programs. - **Data-Driven Decision Making.** Skilled in establishing metrics, dashboards, and reporting structures to monitor learning effectiveness and inform continuous improvement. **Experience** - 10–12 years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or Talent Management. Experience building or scaling enterprise learning programs in growth-stage or technology-driven environments preferred but not required. - Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field; or equivalent education and experience. - Prior people management experience, with demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams. - Proven experience designing manager development programs, onboarding frameworks, and performance enablement initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes. - Experience working in fast-paced, scaling organizations where both strategic leadership and tactical execution are required. **Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus:**$128,000 **Location:** Onsite, Las Vegas, NV **Travel Requirement:** Less than 10% 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! #LI-Onsite #LI- 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*.*