Jobs at Zynga

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.

Build and deliver interactive playable ads and creative units using HTML5, JavaScript, Canvas, and 2D/3D frameworks. Implement gameplay, animations, responsive layouts, asset pipelines, analytics instrumentation, and performance optimizations across supported devices. Own projects from technical kickoff through production delivery, conduct self-QA, resolve issues, and improve development workflows while meeting deadlines.

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.

Develop and deploy slot-game features in Unity and C#, including gameplay, UI/UX, engine systems, and creator tools. Build server-backend functionality, investigate and extend slot-engine systems, define technical tasks, and quickly resolve bugs. The role requires collaboration, strong communication, and delivery under deadlines, with opportunities to work on live mobile games and performance optimization.

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 analytics for Zynga Poker by running A/B tests, building ETL pipelines and dashboards, analyzing player behavior, tuning game economy, and improving fraud/bad-actor models. Collaborate with product, design, and data science teams, contribute to AI/LLM initiatives, and maintain telemetry and BI tools to inform strategic decisions that impact millions of players.

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.

Manage outsourced game development pipelines and vendor relationships across multiple studios. Oversee schedules, budgets, contracts, and vendor evaluation; negotiate rates, draft POs/SOWs, approve invoices, and coordinate with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and studios. Provide project reporting, risk mitigation, and mentorship to Associate Producers while maintaining cross-functional alignment and vendor performance.

Lead and manage global operational workflows and compliance programs (e.g., Global Fonts, Player Data Compliance). Serve as central liaison between studios and corporate teams, manage vendor proposals and contract tracking, maintain tracking systems, deprecate high-risk assets, optimize processes using modern tools, and provide project management support for software migrations, tool rollouts, and M&A integration.

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.

Designs and implements live-ops events and content for a mobile game, including balancing systems, analyzing player feedback and metrics, improving design tools, and collaborating across disciplines. Creates new event types, prototypes features, writes design documentation and user stories, leads brainstorming, and advocates for player-focused design. The role requires strong game systems, content, narrative, math, balancing, pacing, and mobile gaming expertise.

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.

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.

Analyze advertising inventory to maximize value, design tests, synthesize data into reports, and identify revenue opportunities in gaming.