Jobs at Zynga

Senior Product Manager for an unannounced mobile free-to-play action game. Responsibilities include defining and implementing gameplay features, managing live operations schedules, shaping product strategy and roadmaps, conducting user and competitive research, analyzing data, and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires independent ownership, strong communication, executive presentation skills, and experience with live game operations, mid-core genres, and product launches.

Lead tactical planning, costing, and delivery of core UX, UI, and systems features for an unannounced mobile free-to-play action game. Coordinate multidisciplinary and cross-game teams, communicate progress and risks to production and leadership, foster iterative development, and establish achievable delivery plans. The role requires shipped-game production experience, strong collaboration and communication skills, risk mitigation abilities, and proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, and Miro.

Supports Unity game development for mobile games by building gameplay features, internal tools, and workflows; testing, debugging, and optimizing experiences; participating in code reviews; collaborating with designers, artists, and developers; proposing technical solutions; and documenting improvements. The role is intended for a student pursuing computer science, game development, or a related field with Unity and C# experience.

Drive organic growth for Zynga’s mobile games through app store optimization. Responsibilities include optimizing and testing store listings and visual assets, developing creative briefs, running platform tests, coordinating in-game event promotions, managing Custom Product Pages, analyzing performance metrics, researching competitors, and communicating actionable insights to marketing, product, creative, and executive teams.

Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines, cross-game data marts, analytics tools, and AI-powered workflows. The role involves advanced SQL and Python development, production ETL maintenance, collaboration with game and marketing analysts, and educating stakeholders on software engineering best practices.

Develop features and game functionality for an unannounced mobile free-to-play action game using Unreal Engine 5. Work across gameplay, meta systems, and core technology; build tools for engineers and content creators; scope tasks and systems; and triage bugs. Collaborate with design and backend teams in a hybrid London-based environment.

Create and maintain rigging and technical animation pipelines for an unannounced mobile game. Implement characters, skeletal systems, retargeting, animation blueprints, cloth dynamics, and scalable Unreal Engine animation systems. Develop scripts and optimize character assets for mobile performance, while documenting pipelines and collaborating with animators and art leadership. Bonus responsibilities include facial rigging, motion capture cleanup, procedural animation, LOD automation, and technical art support.

Design, deploy, and support scalable backend infrastructure and server architectures. Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud environments and build platforms, improve engineering workflows and tooling, contribute to architecture planning, and support reliable high-availability live services. The role also involves technical communication, best-practice sharing, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Support the Dragon City product team through competitor benchmarking, player research, feature and content launch assistance, game metrics analysis, live-ops planning, event scheduling, and cross-team coordination. The intern will turn player feedback and performance data into actionable product insights while learning about game economy, product analytics, and mobile free-to-play game development.

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.

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.

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.

Supports mobile game development using C++, contributing to gameplay features, internal tools, optimization, testing, debugging, documentation, and workflow improvements. Collaborates with senior engineers, designers, artists, and developers while participating in code reviews and technical discussions. The internship provides hands-on experience developing and polishing mobile gaming experiences for iOS and Android platforms.

Create high-quality 2D game animations, VFX, UI elements, and other game-ready assets for Monster Legends and Dragon City. Collaborate with animators, artists, developers, designers, and producers; participate in animation reviews; apply feedback; prepare assets according to technical guidelines; and learn Spine animation best practices within a game development pipeline.

Develop and prototype features for large-scale live games using multiple programming languages. Improve game performance, reliability, and health; conduct design and code reviews; solve complex technical problems; collaborate with product, UX, art, and QA teams; and mentor junior engineers.

Supports community management and social media for mobile games. Responsibilities include managing Discord operations, coordinating with moderators, publishing and scheduling content across social platforms, maintaining the content calendar, engaging with players, monitoring community activity, escalating issues, identifying trends, and suggesting engagement improvements. The role requires strong English communication, active Discord usage, social media awareness, and current university enrollment with an internship agreement.

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.