Jobs at Zynga

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.

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.

Manages relationships with high-value social gaming players through frequent phone and email outreach. Responsibilities include retaining and reactivating VIP customers, developing new VIP relationships, increasing revenue and lifetime value, resolving issues with studios, analyzing campaign performance, supporting promotions and feature requests, and achieving productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, engagement, and reactivation goals.

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.

Analyze large player datasets to identify opportunities, improve game metrics, and support evidence-based decisions. Build dashboards and maintain trusted data sources, communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams. Design, test, verify, and help deploy machine learning models and product features at scale. Deliver impactful analytics and data science projects aligned with product roadmaps.

Manage large-scale mobile user acquisition and retargeting campaigns across paid social, ad networks, and DSPs. Optimize creative, geographic, platform, and channel performance to improve returns, scale products, increase lifetime value, and reduce acquisition costs. Partner with game, creative, product marketing, engineering, and machine learning teams while forecasting budgets and reporting campaign results.

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.

Own analytics for Words With Friends Instant, providing insights on player behavior, product performance, experimentation, revenue, retention, and engagement. Design statistical experiments, dashboards, telemetry, and ETL pipelines; analyze trends and feature health; maintain data tools and models; and communicate recommendations to product, engineering, design, and executive stakeholders. The role also supports AI initiatives and optimization of the player experience.

Manage mobile user acquisition campaigns for Two Dots, Dragon City, and Monster Legends across social, SDK, and programmatic channels. Responsibilities include campaign setup, optimization, budgeting, reporting, creative and audience testing, dashboard analysis, forecasting, and cross-functional collaboration with Creative, Product, ASO, and BI teams. The role focuses on improving CPI, ROAS, IPM, and overall user growth.

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 game production by managing schedules, roadmaps, sprints, task dependencies, risks, capacity, and project communications. The role leads producers, coordinates multidisciplinary internal and external teams, improves production processes, tracks objectives through JIRA, supports live-service game updates, maintains documentation, and advocates for player-focused game quality.

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 marketing analytics initiatives, including statistical analysis, campaign optimization, LTV modeling, incrementality analysis, data visualization, and third-party data pipeline development. Partner with marketing and cross-functional teams to identify growth opportunities, deliver actionable insights to senior stakeholders, and prototype AI-driven automation for recurring analytics workflows and improved decision-making.

Drive programmatic direct revenue for Zynga’s mobile and in-app media business. Build strategic relationships with agency holding companies, trading desks, DSPs, SSPs, and retail media partners; package curated demand; optimize deal performance and revenue; and co-sell with account executives. The role also supports pipeline development, buyer education, deal structuring, RFP responses, and overcoming technical objections. Success requires strong programmatic sales expertise, an established industry network, quantitative skills, and a proven record of closing significant commitments.

Design and own metagame, progression, economy and engagement features for a live FPS mobile title. Prototype, balance, analyze KPIs and player data, collaborate across design, art, UX, engineering and product to iterate and expand live features, and document concepts to align teams.

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.