<p><strong>About the Role </strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3073" data-local-id="27b6b372-b656-4cc7-b8b5-0181e9f74f92">The VP, Analytics owns Skillz Platform analytics across SDK and Arena, consolidating people currently split across separate reporting lines into a single function accountable for measurement integrity, experiment quality and decision velocity. The function is organizationally independent of every function it scores — including Product, Growth and Strategy.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3073" data-local-id="27b6b372-b656-4cc7-b8b5-0181e9f74f92"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Responsibilities </strong></p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="f373950f-3afc-4614-9a96-42742eeb5250" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p>Own Skillz Platform analytics across SDK and Arena, leading roughly ten people across four sub-functions with four direct reports.</p> </li> <li> <p>Establish and govern a single source of truth: the metric dictionary, the Snowflake semantic-layer contract, definitional change control, and reconciliation between the network P&L and venue scorecards.</p> </li> <li> <p>Specify and land the lifecycle marker that install-to-second-payment, install-to-stable and CAC-to-stable all depend on.</p> </li> <li> <p>Establish holdout-based incrementality as the default standard for campaigns, promos, incentives and channel spend, and refuse reads that do not have one.</p> </li> <li> <p>Serve as the independent scoring authority for the economy — cash, Z, Ticketz and matchmaking — against the guardrail bands set by VP Strategy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Ensure every stage of the profit-driver chain and both product surfaces have a named analytics owner, a live baseline and a defined cadence.</p> </li> <li> <p>Build and lead the Competitive & Market Intelligence function, giving leadership an external benchmark for every internal target.</p> </li> <li> <p>Partner as a peer with Product, Growth, Engineering, Data Engineering, Player Trust and FP&A; represent analytics in quarterly planning and the weekly leadership ritual.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hire, develop and retain the analytics bench; build a leadership layer and remove key-man risk on integrity and reconciliation.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3167" data-local-id="5b102d9a-5e75-40b3-8f1e-45cd596bc5b8"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Key Competencies </strong></p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="6c86be98-f70e-4816-8737-af9691ef868b" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p>Measurement rigor under commercial pressure — can hold a defensible number when a senior stakeholder wants a different one, and knows the difference between a directional read and a causal one.</p> </li> <li> <p>Org design and economic thinking — structures analytics around the business's economic model rather than around features or requesters; has consolidated fragmented analytics functions before.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experimentation and causal-inference depth — holdout design, incrementality, cannibalization testing, and the judgment to know when a clean experiment is not worth the cost.</p> </li> <li> <p>Independence without isolation — scores the functions they partner with, and keeps the partnership intact while doing it.</p> </li> <li> <p>Executive communication — translates measurement into decisions for an SLT audience without oversimplifying or hiding behind method.</p> </li> <li> <p>Player-economy intuition — reasons fluently about deposits, wallets, incentive burn, tier migration, LTV and matchmaking fairness.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3223" data-local-id="a23dc508-14fb-4086-b941-61fe1a2afdb5"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Experience </strong></p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="3ede710e-d58b-4863-a8d4-f8a1e5bc83f9" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p>14+ years in analytics or data science with 6+ years leading multi-team organizations, including managers reporting in.</p> </li> <li> <p>Owned analytics for a consumer product with a real-money, wallet or transactional economy — real-money gaming, fintech, marketplaces or online gambling strongly preferred.</p> </li> <li> <p>Consolidated multiple analytics or BI functions into a single org, and built and governed a semantic or metric layer at scale (Snowflake or equivalent) with company-wide adoption.</p> </li> <li> <p>Ran a mature experimentation programme including holdout and incrementality methodology, with demonstrable influence on monetization or acquisition decisions.</p> </li> <li> <p>Operated as a credible peer to Product, Growth and Engineering leadership across multiple product lines; comfortable with ambiguity and with organizations mid-restructure. </p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3335" data-local-id="10cc0f3b-5307-4284-8eee-657f72659163"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Location:</strong> <span class="fabric-background-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-background-custom-color="#fedec8"><span class="background-color-padding-left background-color-padding-right">Onsite, Hybrid in Bengaluru, India</span></span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3417" data-local-id="017e4801-b93a-4b71-be5f-ddf3dd79aee5"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Travel Requirement: </strong>Less than 10% </p> <div id="reading-aids-portal-container" c