Project Manager, Zynga
$61.7-91.3k
The listed salary is applicable to Chicago and may vary for other locations
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$61.7-91.3k
The listed salary is applicable to Chicago and may vary for other locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree
- Background in project management fundamentals or Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years of relevant program/project management experience
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Passion for gaming and player success
- USA afternoon availability required for close collaboration with PSO leaders in Austin, San Mateo, and Chicago
What the job involves
- As a Program Manager within the Player Success Organization (PSO), you will provide direction and leadership in the planning, implementation, and post-launch support of programs and initiatives that enhance player engagement and retention
- You will collaborate across PSO studio leadership and central teams to ensure efficient, high-quality planning for new products and enhancements
- This role requires strong project management fundamentals and the ability to drive initiatives through their complete lifecycle while managing cross-functional dependencies
- Collaborate with and oversee PSO studio integrations across multiple studios
- Manage process documentation, contracting workflows, and vendor relationships, working primarily with USA-based partners
- Provide direction and leadership across the entire lifecycle of PSO initiatives (planning, development, testing, and release)
- Support VIP operations and new studio onboarding, managing the complete integration lifecycle and maintaining dotted-line accountability to CS leadership
- Manage program/project plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery within resource constraints
- Provide cross-team support for Sweepstakes and special initiatives
- Take existing, externally-owned systems and ensure PSO needs are clearly integrated and requirements are met
- Serve as primary problem-solver and liaison between technical, business, and product teams
- Lead post-program reporting and documentation refinement to establish scalable processes
- Monitor task execution to ensure timely delivery of PSO initiatives and programs
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 over 170 countries and regions and millions of 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. In 2024 the company announced it was developing push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application, which will be an interesting addition to its outputs.
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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 & Co-founder)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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