Jobs at Zynga

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.

Develop server-side poker game features and gameplay functionality in Go for high-performance, large-scale applications. Build and integrate REST and gRPC APIs, SDKs, tools, and technologies; extend core systems; contribute to architecture, security, scalability, testing, and operations. Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in long-term initiatives, review code, improve processes, and deliver solutions for live mobile game titles.

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.