Jobs at Zynga

Design, develop, architect, and maintain backend applications and services for Zynga’s shared Payments platform. Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency across AWS-based systems. Write and review code, evaluate technical plans, provide production and integration support, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver high-quality shared technology for Zynga’s games.

Own global operational workflows, compliance tracking, vendor proposal coordination, and cross-functional projects across Zynga’s game studios and corporate teams. The role manages data integrity, software clearances, contracts, approval workflows, and risk mitigation initiatives. It also supports process optimization using tools such as Gemini, software migrations, tool rollouts, and M&A integration. Success requires strong stakeholder communication, documentation, organization, autonomy, and the ability to translate legal or technical requirements into actionable processes.

Designs, builds, and maintains AI-powered developer tools and applications across frontend, backend, APIs, cloud infrastructure, LLM features, agentic workflows, and MCP-based services. The role establishes technical vision, architects scalable systems, reviews code and technical plans, improves platform reliability and AI capabilities, supports production integrations, and collaborates with product, design, engineering, and game development teams.

Own execution of Zynga’s internal AI operating platform from intake and triage through release and post-launch measurement. Partner with engineering on complex platform capabilities including chat, knowledge bases, connectors, workflows, and documents. Define requirements, conduct technical research, establish metrics, prioritize requests, unblock delivery, and drive operational rigor across multi-team workstreams.

Develop AI-driven mobile game prototypes and reinvent art production pipelines. Build tools and automation, integrate 2D, 3D, animation, and UI assets, optimize workflows for mobile, collaborate across art and programming teams, and document best practices. The role requires technical artist experience, AI-assisted development, Unity or web prototyping, scripting, and strong understanding of game asset pipelines.

Designs and leads scalable AI systems, full-stack applications, cloud infrastructure, LLM-powered services, and agentic workflows across Zynga’s game studios. Owns architecture strategy, evaluates AI platforms, establishes engineering standards, drives reliability and quality practices, collaborates with stakeholders, manages technical risk, and mentors engineers. Requires strong Python, cloud, Kubernetes, database, algorithms, and AI/ML integration expertise.

Analyze player behavior, product performance, revenue, retention, and engagement for Zynga Poker. Design experiments, dashboards, ETL pipelines, telemetry, fraud models, and business intelligence solutions. Partner with product, game design, economy, and consumer insights teams to guide decisions and improve player experiences. Contribute to AI-enabled analytics workflows, game integrity initiatives, and analytics best practices.

Leads advertising monetization product strategy across 50+ mobile games. Designs and analyzes ad platform experiments, optimizes ad serving, pricing, formats, and trigger logic, manages SDK distribution and upgrades, monitors ad technology and privacy changes, supports live operations, and identifies opportunities through market research, competitive analysis, and user interviews.

Owns analytics and optimization strategy for advertising revenue across Zynga’s mobile game portfolio. Responsibilities include monitoring performance, diagnosing trends, designing A/B tests, identifying monetization opportunities, partnering with product, analytics, and data science teams, supporting AI and ML models, leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring analysts.

Coordinates contract and vendor management workflows, including renewals, purchase order requests, approvals, compliance documentation, contract repositories, and database maintenance. Prepares program updates, reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications while supporting risk mitigation, usage-data accuracy, procurement processes, and ad hoc business operations initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally with IT and other partner teams and tracks contract lifecycle milestones through completion.

Leads Zynga’s global centralized data platform and product strategy, overseeing real-time ingestion, cloud data warehousing, experimentation, metrics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities. Manages approximately 60 employees across multiple regions, including senior engineering, product, and program leaders. Drives AI adoption, organizational change, platform reliability, data quality, compliance, and self-service analytics while partnering with studio and executive stakeholders.

Lead and grow a lifecycle marketing team across multiple game genres. Own strategy, execution, tools adoption, deliverability, testing, and performance reporting. Drive personalized nurture programs, GTM communications, cross-functional collaboration, and OKRs to improve engagement, retention, and reactivation.

Lead the FinOps engineering team to design and implement backend services, cost-optimization tooling, data pipelines, APIs and dashboards, mentor engineers, and partner across engineering, finance, and product to drive cloud and vendor cost efficiency.

Lead design for mobile native apps and mobile web commerce experiences, from discovery through prototyping and post-launch iteration. Audit commerce flows, collaborate with product and engineering, use research and analytics to inform decisions, build interactive prototypes, and maintain a scalable Figma-based design system while mentoring junior designers and championing UX excellence.

The role involves leading financial analysis for technology spend, designing data models, developing visualizations, and ensuring data quality, while collaborating with internal stakeholders across the company.

Lead UX/UI design for mobile games: create flows, wireframes, Figma prototypes, design systems, visual assets, and Unity implementations. Conduct research and testing, collaborate with art and engineering, mentor UX staff, and own UX across multiple feature pods to deliver engaging, usable game experiences.

Own global business operations workflows, including the Global Fonts Program and Player Data Compliance initiatives. Coordinate studios and corporate teams across Legal, Privacy, Procurement, Publishing, and Engineering. Maintain compliance records, contracts, approvals, and risk-tracking systems; manage vendor proposal workflows; optimize operational processes using tools such as Airtable, Jira, Confluence, and generative AI. Provide project management support for software migrations, tool rollouts, and M&A integration initiatives.