Senior Product Manager, Zynga
Poker
$87.4-145.6k
Salary dependent on location
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$87.4-145.6k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- We're searching for a Senior Product Manager on our Poker team who can help drive the team’s product vision and strategy
- We value strong analytical skills, problem-solving and quantitative experience. We look for great communicators, leaders and team players
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and experience with data-driven decisionmaking
- Solid design sense, capable of identifying the various tradeoffs in feature development and making the best decision for the feature, player, and product
- Demonstrated experience balancing multiple priorities, collecting requirements, crafting product specifications, carrying features from conceptualization to implementation
- A track record for high performance and team/project leadership
- Hard-working, performance-driven self-starter and team player
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ideally, 5+ year prior experience in consumer technology or mobile games product management
What the job involves
- This Product Manager will drive features in all parts of the product lifecycle, with a special focus on live operations and monetization
- In this role, you will be building on our robust events, offers, and live operations infrastructure to provide novel and exciting updates to the Zynga Poker community every single day
- It’s a great opportunity for major impact on one of the company’s largest franchises, with ample opportunity for driving high-visibility growth through product innovation and crisp execution
- Drive features through all parts of the product lifecycle on Zynga Poker, from ideation through to development, deployment, and analysis, with a particular focus on live operations and monetization features
- Partner with engineers, artists, producers, QA, marketing, and other disciplines across the Poker studio to successfully deliver great gameplay experiences for our users
- Develop and communicate the vision for live game operations clearly to stakeholders across the studio, positively influencing outcomes through clear, concise communication
- Conduct rigorous analysis utilizing quantitative and qualitative data to derive actionable insights into product and feature performance. Build on those insights by driving key next steps through to conclusion
- Develop and implement A/B testing on core live game features utilizing Zynga’s tech stack to deliver results through game optimization and iteration - helping the studio to be 1% better each day
- Support robust live operations for the Zynga Poker product, delivering compelling events and offers to our players to ensure the game remains fresh and exciting for players every day
- Evangelize Poker product vision within the studio and global Zynga organizations including marketing, central tech, and other partner teams
- Define and analyze metrics that inform product success & health
Our take
Zynga is a games developer that rode Facebook's platform to success back in the late noughties and early 2010's. It is now one of the biggest casual game producers globally, with a presence across 175 countries and regions and over 80 million monthly active users.
Though the company hit a number of roadblocks after its initial success - such as falling stock prices, and numerous calls it was copying other games - its subsequent resurgence is proof of its staying power. It continues to use social media as a distribution channel, and boasts titles such as FarmVille, Merge Dragons! and Words With Friends.
Future success will lie in the company's continued investment in building viral games that people love. It will also need to attune to the social media waves and keep track of where users can be found, as the landscape has become more mobile. Notable recent activity includes a collaboration with BBC Earth ahead of 2024's Earth day, and grant to develop actionable push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2011
$490m
SERIES C
Oct 2010
$6.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $865.5m
Company benefits
- COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
- HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
- FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies
- WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
- FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
- WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
- TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
- RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Pincus
(Chairman)Previously founder and CEO of Freeloader, Supportsoft and Tribe.net, an early social network
Michael Luxton
(Co-founder)Previously an engineer at NetApp
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