At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times---connecting players in 175 countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation---and where you can take your career to the next level.
Join us and be part of the play!
Position Overview:
We're searching for a Senior Product Manager on our Analytics team who can help drive the team's product vision and strategy. This Product Manager will work closely with Zynga's internal teams to understand their technological needs as they build out engaging experiences for our new and existing player base. Projects will range from development of automation tools, data pipelines, and ML models empowering users to effectively and efficiently meet their business goals.
What You'll Do:
- Establish the product vision and strategy that will help improve operations and performance across our business.
- Partner with executive, game, marketing, and Analytics teams to understand user needs and establish success criteria with clearly measurable objectives and key results to deliver a great end-user experience.
- Collaborate with a high-performing group of Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists to complete product results and achieve the team's mission.
- Impact end-to-end product lifecycle of features spanning multiple areas.
- Evangelize products within global organizations including marketing teams, data scientists, designers and leadership teams.
- Collaborate to solve novel problems introduced by the constantly evolving and increasingly challenging gaming ecosystem.
- Be or become a guide in data science strategies and technologies including key vendors in the space, pros and cons of opposing approaches, and trade offs involved with different strategies.
- Implement exceptional product development and management practices.
- Communicate concisely and influence outcomes.
- Develop the product roadmap and build alignment on prioritization which drives product execution.
- Define and analyze metrics that inform product success \& health.
Zynga is known for its data-driven culture, its ambitious mindset, and its fast-paced, challenging work environment where each individual can make a difference. We value strong analytical skills, problem-solving and quantitative experience. We look for great communicators, leaders and team players.
What You Bring:
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills a requirement with a Master degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or Business.
- 5 years of professional experience in a product management role.
- Prior experience in working with Game and/or Marketing teams or building DS solutions.
- Demonstrated experience with prioritizing projects, collecting requirements, crafting product specifications, carrying features from conceptualization to deployment.
- Good knowledge of agile software development methodologies and software development life cycle.
- Demonstrated experience in collaborating across global teams in different organizations.
- Experience with metrics-driven decision-making.
- Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy.
- A track record for high performance and team/project leadership.
- Hard-working, performance-driven self-starter and team player.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
What We Offer You:
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic -- not an individual's race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
