UI/UX Director, Zynga
$155-200k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. The pay range for this position in Toronto at the start of employment is expected to be between $150,000 to $180,000 per Year
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
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$155-200k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. The pay range for this position in Toronto at the start of employment is expected to be between $150,000 to $180,000 per Year
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s in a creative field
- 5+ years of experience managing a creative team
- Experience in 0 to 1 new game development - at least 1 shipped title
- Extensive mobile development experience
- Strong UX and UI hard skills around creating visuals and flows
- Ability to work directly in the Unity Engine
- Have a comprehensive understanding of multiple creative disciplines and how they function in the gaming pipeline
- Knowledge of software like Creative Suite, Perforce, JIRA, and other software
- High level of EQ and communication skills
- Passionate about games - zynga games, a plus!
- Be well versed in the market and competition
- Have a high quality portfolio with works that apply
Desirable
- Creating Motion Graphics & Unity implementation
What the job involves
- Zynga is looking for a world-class UI / UX Director to lead the visual development on an exciting new, unannounced game project
- The nature of this project is graphic design heavy and user experience critical
- The UI/UX Director will not only set the visual style direction but also directing the motion-graphics and animation to dazzle players in the moment-to-moment experience
- Being a leadership role on a new game project (currently in concept phase), this position demands a comfort with chaos and a passion for iterative problem solving
- You will work within a small, agile team and be hands-on with the visual design files and build
- As a leader, you will be a key contributor to strategic planning, gameplay discussions, process setting and team culture
- Beyond the ability to meet production deadlines and business goals, this position requires strong instincts around what is fun and a critical eye for the quality of product you are creating
- Setting the visual style through strong graphic design skills
- Career & performance management for your direct reports
- Guide, mentor, and assist with hiring/recruiting of team members
- Sourcing freelancers and external studios as needed
- Rapid-prototyping both in Figma and in Unity
- Directing the animation & motion graphics side of the player experience
- Managing UI/UX related issues from both creative and technical standpoints
- Ensuring all released content is consistent and high quality
- Style Guides creation
- Collaborative strategic roadmap and development planning
- Collaboration with Marketing and User Acquisition teams around Marketing material creation
- Overseeing visual and experience development processes
- Ensuring feature estimates are accurately scoped and planned
- Setting goals and objectives for your creative team
- Lead inter-department communications as they relate to UX / UI and art
- Lead both formal and informal critique, and work through leads to disseminate feedback
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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