Senior Director of Product, Zynga
$227.7-337k
Social game developer
Job no longer available
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$227.7-337k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in product management in consumer web or game development is helpful but not required
- Capable of leading product strategy and vision across the company
- Ability to provide competitive analysis and strategic direction for any feature
- Leader who defines experimentation best practices, including experiment design, analysis methodologies, experiment reports, and readouts
- Strong manager who ensures reports receive mentorship, training, and feedback
- Passion for games and crafting fun, compelling, and exciting user experiences
- Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical abilities, and attention to detail
- BA/BS degree
What the job involves
- Zynga is looking for an experienced Senior Product leader who can own outcomes, drive results, create fun for our players, and directly impact the business performance of large-scale games, including perennial Zynga favorites Words with Friends and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
- As Senior Director of Product, you will oversee product and game design verticals with Creative Directors and Heads of Product reporting directly to you
- You work closely with game team leadership to align on a cohesive vision and strategy for each business unit, ensuring roadmaps are set up to deliver on business objectives
- You will partner closely with Engineering, Production, Art, and UX at your level to manage multiple large-scale live franchises and shepherd in-development casual titles to launch
- You'll be responsible for overall vision, strategy, and top-line business outcomes for the casual division’s product portfolio, currently made up of Words with Friends, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, and an unannounced casual title
- Directly manage Heads of Product and Creative Directors on casual while working to develop future product and design leaders
- Collaborate with respective discipline leaders of the Casual Division to drive overall business growth, healthy culture, and productive and happy teams
- Drive product design or innovation that represents a meaningful contribution to the company
- Consistently identify product risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Manage expectations and communicate optimally to both the game team and senior executives in a variety of formats, including Quarterly Business Reviews
- Ensure the team’s product decisions are based on rigorous analysis and intuitive design. Define analytics standards in partnership with the analytics manager
- Inform and validate roadmap/product direction through proactive customer engagement methods and Consumer Insights partnership
- Strong partner with marketing, user acquisition, analytics, consumer insights, central product, lifecycle management, and VIP
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.
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 & 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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