Senior Product Manager, Zynga
+ Company bonus scheme + ESPP
2+ days a week in office
Social game developer
Open for applications
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Company bonus scheme + ESPP
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager in the gaming industry or B2C sector
- Goal-oriented, highly motivated, and takes full ownership of projects
- A “mover and shaker” who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical and technical skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and influence stakeholders
- A creative problem solver — an inventive thinker who provides insightful, innovative solutions to any challenge
What the job involves
- We are currently on the lookout for a brilliant Product Guru — an organized and creative individual with talent, passion, and experience
- In this role, you’ll be expected to lead, innovate, and execute — taking ideas and turning them into reality
- We believe in a balance of collaboration and autonomy, working effectively to achieve ambitious results
- Own the Merge Dragons! product lifecycle from end to end
- Drive the success and growth of the product by developing a clear product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management framework
- Manage execution and address challenges through creative, out-of-the-box thinking; lead and contribute to technical discussions with cross-functional teams
- Gather multidisciplinary requirements, write clear and detailed MRDs, PRDs, UI/UX flows, and wireframes; define A/B tests and user stories; prioritize the backlog; and oversee development and engineering
- Test, analyze, optimize, and balance features to achieve the best results. Take responsibility for usage data and patterns, and run tests to continuously improve performance and business outcomes
- Collaborate with all relevant cross-functional teams (R&D, Design, Customer Support, BI, etc.) to ensure smooth and efficient implementation
- Identify opportunities for key initiatives that enhance the customer experience
Salary benchmarks
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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