Director of Analytics, Zynga
$155-230k
Salary is applicable to California rates only and may vary on further locations
Social game developer
Open for applications
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$155-230k
Salary is applicable to California rates only and may vary on further locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: predictive modeling, statistics, experimental design, optimization, data visualization
- Proven experience in building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, effectively managing communication and expectations to drive successful project outcomes
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills; comfortable explaining technical topics to non-technical users
- Domain knowledge in marketing, mobile gaming, player behavior, business modeling, and forecasting
- Strong experience in SQL and Python; Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau
- 10+ years of work experience in data science, machine learning or analytics roles
- 6+ years of work experience in people management
- 2+ years of work experience with senior or executive leadership teams as customers
- BS in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields; Masters or PhD strongly preferred
What the job involves
- The Publishing Analytics team has been charged with supporting marketing and product performance insights across our portfolio
- We utilize the vast amount of internal and third-party data available to achieve this, providing reporting, tooling, and analysis that elevate various functions in Zynga
- As the Director of Publishing Analytics, you will provide team and technical leadership across our marketing and central publishing analytics teams
- Success requires that you build strong relationships with Zynga’s publishing organizations, game studios, partner teams, and executive team
- You will work with your teams to propose innovative solutions, prioritize workflows, and coordinate product development and enhancements with our development teams
- The stakeholder landscape for this role is large and complex, so it is necessary that you operate strategically to scale your team’s execution by collaborating with partner teams across the company
- Work with large amounts of data to find and lead opportunities to improve the investment efficiency and operational excellence
- Manage multiple teams of data analysts and scientists to ensure high-quality execution while grooming and growing talent
- Establish new measurement frameworks for that work for our broad portfolio of games.
- Use our modern tech stack, Redshift, Databricks and PySpark, Airflow, and Tableau to develop innovative tools
- Technically engage with the analysts, data scientists, and game teams to provide data-driven insights and guidance with your strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Bolster customer trust and build technical knowledge through execution of ad hoc analyses of high business priority
- Translate functional requirements into technical solutions to business challenges
- Ability to distill analysis and communicate recommendations effectively for a diverse set of stakeholders including senior executives
- Collaborate with partner teams to define areas of opportunity and set priorities
- Supervise the larger technical direction of projects
- Develop talent and steer career growth within the team
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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