Senior Product Manager, Zynga
New Games
2+ days a week in office
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management (or similar ownership roles) in F2P mobile games. Experience in early-stage development / new games is a plus, but not a must
- Strong product instincts and comfort working with design: you can guide decisions to make the game better and keep the team focused on what matters
- You enjoy moving fast, working with ambiguity, and taking ownership in small teams
- High standards for craft and player experience, even when working with prototypes
- Curiosity and strong taste in games: you actively play, analyze, and share insights about mechanics, economies, and player motivation
- Solid analytical foundation: you understand key product metrics (retention, funnels, monetization signals) and can make decisions even with early, imperfect data
- Clear communication in English (Spanish is a plus)
Desirable
- Hybrid casual / accessible mid-core background (progression, economy, squads/units, meta loops)
- Familiarity with instrumentation, dashboards, and basic SQL for ad-hoc analysis
- Experience supporting a title through soft launch and learning-driven iteration
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our New Games team in Barcelona and help us build and validate early-stage mobile titles
- You’ll work in a small, cross-functional team to take ideas from concept to playable prototypes quickly, test them, learn, and iterate. The focus is on accessible mid-core / hybrid casual games, with strong product thinking and a hands-on approach to gameplay and systems
- This role sits close to design. You won’t be the sole vision owner, but you’ll be expected to feel comfortable making design decisions and helping shape the product, especially around core loop, puzzle structure, progression, economy, and meta systems
- Drive discovery and iteration cycles: define hypotheses, success metrics, and run fast build–test–learn loops
- Partner with Design, Engineering, Art, and Production to shape the product: core gameplay iteration, early game experience, puzzle level structure, progression and economy, and meta loops (including squads/units when relevant)
- Own market research and benchmarking: break down why reference games work, identify patterns and opportunities, and translate learnings into concrete product decisions
- Define and analyze experiments (including A/B tests when applicable), and turn outcomes into clear next steps
- Communicate learnings and recommendations to stakeholders, and help the team make calls quickly when direction needs to change
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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