Vice President of Legal

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 

Executive Counsel & Corporate Governance

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors on corporate, commercial, regulatory, governance, and enterprise risk matters.

• Support public company requirements, including SEC reporting, disclosure obligations, securities law compliance, insider trading controls, and corporate governance best practices.

• Support Board and committee governance processes, including meeting procedures, resolutions, minutes, and corporate record-keeping.

• Partner closely with Finance, HR, Product, Compliance, and business leaders to provide practical, business-focused legal guidance that enables growth while appropriately managing risk.

Commercial Transactions & Strategic Partnerships

• Own the legal review of commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor relationships, and data-sharing arrangements, ensuring Skillz's intellectual property, data rights, confidential information, and business interests are appropriately protected.
• Establish scalable contracting processes, templates, and approval workflows that enable the business to move quickly while maintaining appropriate governance and risk management.
• Coordinating work streams for mergers and acquisitions, including diligence, transaction structuring, negotiation, and post-close integration.

Regulatory, Privacy & Gaming Compliance

• Audit and oversee Skillz’s compliance posture across skill-based gaming regulations and state-by-state licensing requirements, ensuring the Compliance function maintains current, accurate, and defensible positions across all operating jurisdictions.
• Manage data privacy obligations under CCPA, GDPR, and global privacy frameworks.
• Advise on marketing compliance, consumer protection obligations, and sweepstakes and promotional programs

 IP Strategy & Protection

• Own Skillz’s IP portfolio strategy, including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, as a core competitive asset of the business
• Partner with HR and business leadership to classify proprietary information, define access levels, and implement information governance protocols that enable employees to do their roles effectively while limiting exposure of sensitive IP beyond what each role requires
• Establish and maintain trade secret protection frameworks, including onboarding, off boarding, and need-to-know access controls, in coordination with HR and IT
• Direct outside IP counsel on enforcement, licensing, and portfolio development with a clear commercial objective
• Take swift, decisive action to protect Skillz's technology and brand advantages when violations or risks are identified

Key Competencies 

• Ownership, Advocacy & Executive Presence: Acts like an owner and serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and the Board. Relentlessly protects Skillz's intellectual property, data assets, commercial interests, and competitive position. Willing to challenge assumptions, push back on counterparties, and make difficult decisions when the company's interests are at stake

• AI & Legal Technology Mindset: Passionate about leveraging AI and emerging technologies to automate routine legal work, improve decision-making, accelerate contract review, and increase the efficiency and impact of the legal function. Constantly looking for ways to modernize how legal services are delivered

• Commercial Instinct: A business-minded legal leader with exceptional negotiation skills and the judgment to balance risk with growth. Protects the company's interests while helping the business move quickly, close deals, and achieve strategic objectives.

• Operational Builder: Develops training systems that equip hiring managers, business leads, and functional teams to recognize legal risk, apply established playbooks, and resolve routine matters independently. Uses term sheets and structured frameworks to front-load key legal decisions before matters escalate. Focused on increasing organizational leverage rather than creating dependency on Legal.

• External Counsel Leadership: Proven legal project manager with the discipline to require budgets and milestones on every matter, track progress against both, and drive outside firms to completion on time and on budget. Hold external counsel accountable and escalating when commitments are not met

Experience 

• J.D. from an accredited law school; active bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

• 10+ years of in-house legal experience, including meaningful tenure at a publicly-traded company with direct accountability for SEC reporting, board governance, and executive-level legal advisory

• Demonstrated success managing outside counsel portfolios across multiple practice areas with disciplined cost management

• M&A transaction experience, with end-to-end involvement in at least one acquisition or divestiture

• Industry experience in gaming, advertising technology, or consumer technology, either in-house or in private practice

Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $350,000 - $400,000 Base + Bonus + Equity

Location: Onsite, Las Vegas, NV or Hybrid in New York, NY

Travel Requirement: Less than 25% 

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Why FIRY

• You are at the center of everything. Corporate roles at FIRY do not support one business. They support the infrastructure, strategy, and execution that makes three independent businesses work and compounds as they grow together.
• Founder-led. Andrew Paradise founded Skillz in 2012 with a single conviction: that fair, real-money skill-based competition should exist at scale. Thirteen years later, he has taken the company public on the NYSE, built a portfolio of three independent businesses, earned 90+ patents, and won the largest false advertising verdict in U.S. history. He is still here, still the founder, still the CEO, still building. That kind of long-term commitment is rare. At FIRY, it defines the culture from the top down.
• A portfolio at the beginning of its compounding phase. Four consecutive quarters of sequential revenue growth. Q1 2026 revenue up 33% year-over-year. RZR at 120%+ year-over-year growth in Q1 2026 and profitable for three consecutive quarters. The flywheel is turning.
• A mission worth the work. FIRY's mission is to fuel business potential. The systems FIRY builds help developers build businesses, advertisers acquire the right users, and infrastructure that turns competitive play into a scalable commercial engine. The addressable market across performance marketing, gaming infrastructure, and skill-based competition is $45B+.
• Comprehensive Benefits. 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents. 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more.
• Wellness Support. Meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.
• Time Off. Competitive PTO and company holidays.
• Las Vegas Headquarters. FIRY operates in a five-day-a-week, collaborative office environment at our 36,000+ square foot Las Vegas headquarters. Free daily lunch, snacks, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, team events, and more.

Explore all current openings at RZR and apply!

FIRY 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 applicable fair chance ordinances.