Producer, Zynga
7 Month Fixed Term Contract
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent communication skills; ability to collaborate and build relationships with multi-functional, multi-regional teams is essential
- Excellent organisational and time management skills; ability to prioritise workload effectively
- Strong team player; ability to work with a team spread across different locations
- Proven ability to work independently and be proactive
- Proven ability to learn new skills quickly, work efficiently and keep a cool head at busy times
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence or similar
- Understanding of mobile app development cycle
- Understanding of Scrum/Agile methodologies
- Experience using mobile publishing portals is a big plus but can be learnt through on-the-job training
What the job involves
- Zynga is looking for a producer to join our Release Operations team
- Your main responsibility will be to manage the smooth submission and release of Zynga's games to our players
- You will be part of a global group working with multiple projects and teams reporting to the Director, Release Operations
- Oversee the submission and release of Zynga’s global game portfolio to our customers through first party development portals such as App Store Connect, Amazon Developer Portal, Google Play Console, Windows partner centre and more
- Troubleshoot app submission and release issues
- Be the main point of contact between game developers and first party platforms
- Communicate and proactively work to resolve first party rejections
- Identify platform changes that may affect the business and highlight risks as needed
- Identify and drive improvements to current processes
- Administrate the first party publishing portals, manage user access and permissions and carry out regular audits
- Managing provisioning profiles, app signing and development certificates
- Take operational roles in our internal projects developing new processes or tools to improve the release operation function
- Build and maintain relationships with product teams such as marketing & engineering to ensure smooth delivery of graphical assets, metadata and builds to first party storefronts
- Use custom tools and services that automate, facilitate and improve the distribution of products to various platform storefronts and identify opportunities for improvements to these internal tools
- Provide clear and concise information to stakeholders and the leadership team to reduce risks for current and upcoming app releases
- Proactively update wiki documentation, making sure our central repository is inline with current processes
- Help evangelise Release Operations services to merger and acquisition studios
- Help manage the launch readiness & sunset processes
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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