Jobs at Zynga

Creates and edits short-form videos, motion graphics, and 2D animations for CSR2 user acquisition campaigns. Collaborates with art, creative, and marketing stakeholders across the full production lifecycle, from concepts to polished assets. Manages multiple projects, translates complex game features into engaging visuals, and uses performance insights and A/B testing to optimize campaign creatives.

Lead end-to-end product/game lifecycle for mobile/consumer games: write specs, prioritize features, analyze data, run experiments, and coordinate design, art, and engineering to deliver engaging player experiences and measurable business outcomes.

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, prototype, and implement enemy behaviours, AI systems, boss encounters and balancing for a mobile first-person shooter. Collaborate with level, art, animation, audio, and engineering teams, analyse playtest and player data, and document designs to deliver polished, shipping-quality enemies and encounters.

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.

Create and optimize 2D game assets (characters, environments, props, UI), integrate art into Unity (canvases, prefabs, sprite sheets), optimize for mobile, adopt AI/procedural tools, manage external art vendors, and collaborate with designers and art directors to deliver production-ready art.

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.

Manages relationships with high-value social gaming players to retain, reactivate, and grow VIP accounts and revenue. Conducts 90–125+ daily phone and email contacts, resolves issues with studios, analyzes campaign performance, supports promotions and VIP feature development, and delivers consultative engagement presentations. Meets productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, reactivation, and engagement targets while collaborating cross-functionally. Some travel, evening, and weekend work may be required.

The Senior Performance Manager will develop Live-ops strategies and monetization plans, design A/B tests, and analyze key metrics for improvement.

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.

Partner with sales and sales marketing to build RFP responses, media plans, decks, and ad/tech specs. Pull inventory in GAM, complete RFIs, hand off to AMs for IOs, and maintain consistency across pitches while staying current on Zynga games and digital media trends.

Lead and shape major systems in CSR2, improve player experience, mentor designers, and ensure high-quality design execution across cross-functional teams.

Lead design for a new Merge 2 title from concept through live operations. Own vision, core loop, progression, economy and monetization. Mentor designers, partner with product/engineering/art, iterate using live analytics, and maintain event pipelines and balance for retention.

Lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative primary research across marketing and game design. Design studies, run interviews and segmentation, analyze and visualize data, manage vendors and research panels, and communicate insights to stakeholders to inform live and in-development games.

Lead profitable user acquisition strategy and execution for Gram Games and Merge Dragons! across major channels. Own growth planning, budget scaling, measurement, experimentation, ROAS, LTV, and full-funnel performance. Mentor UA managers and analysts while partnering with Product, Creative, ASO, and Data teams to improve acquisition efficiency, creative testing, reporting, and cross-functional execution.

Lead the design, modeling, simulation, and live tuning of the Zynga Poker in-game economy. Drive retention and monetization through data-informed economy features, A/B testing, predictive models, and cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, and live-ops teams.