Product Manager, Zynga
$67.1-94k
Salary shown for California and Illinois, other locations may vary
Social game developer
Job no longer available
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$67.1-94k
Salary shown for California and Illinois, other locations may vary
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in product management in consumer web or game development is preferred but not required
- Ability to deconstruct competing feature sets and understand the market landscape
- Capable of building relationships and earning respect of cross-functional team
- Strong community focus. You’re someone who interprets community feedback into digestible insights for the team and incorporates community feedback into product requirements and improvements
- Ability to build wire-frames and product specifications
- 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 a dedicated and passionate Product Manager who can own projects, drive results and directly impact business performance of large-scale games
- As Product Manager, you will work closely with a cross functional group to write product specifications, drive features through launch and understand metrics to make data driven decisions
- Responsible for the full product/game lifecycle. Own and write product specifications while working in multi-disciplinary teams of design, art, and engineering to launch core features within existing and new games!
- Communicate clearly with cross-functional team members
- Inform and execute against defined product strategy on a feature or project level
- Understand core metrics. Use a hypothesis based analytical approach, conduct experimentation
- Own results of individual features/projects and consistently manage against defined expectations
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.
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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)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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