Manager, Learning and Development

About FIRY FIRY (NYSE: FIRY) is a founder-led global holding company built to fuel business potential. Through three independent and complementary businesses, FIRY operates at the intersection of content, identity, commerce, and performance marketing. Founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Andrew Paradise, the company began as Skillz Inc.

— inventing real-money skill-based mobile gaming from scratch and proving that fair and competitive play could be built into mobile games at scale. Fourteen years later, that foundation has grown into three distinct businesses: Skillz is the competition platform FIRY invented. Real-money skill-based gaming infrastructure, with 90M+ registered users, and the foundational source of first-party behavioral data across the portfolio.

RZR is the AI-powered performance advertising platform, rebuilt from the ground up and rebranded in March 2026. Profitable for three consecutive quarters. Beamable is the backend and LiveOps infrastructure for game developers, acquired in 2026.

One platform covering everything a studio needs to build, operate, and grow a live game. FIRY is publicly traded on the NYSE and headquartered in Las Vegas, with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, and Bengaluru.

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.