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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.
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Zynga is looking for a Contractor to join our global marketing team for 4 months to drive User Acquisition creative strategy across our portfolio of live games: Words with Friends, Zynga Poker, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, Game of Thrones: Legends & more!
This temporary role will require a mix of creative and performance marketing experience. The ideal candidate has experience in the mobile game industry, a working knowledge of the levers that drive creative KPI improvement in user acquisition campaigns, and an understanding of the F2P mobile games business.
If you can commit to a vision for a creative strategy that innovates beyond optimization, favors the discovery of new practices over best practices, and is informed by historical data and competitive research, then please continue reading!
Responsibilities:
Per - Cadence (6 weeks)
Analyze UA creative performance and competitor creative trends to develop insights and identify opportunities that can be used to improve creative KPIs
Lead creative planning discussions and decision-making
Align with Product Marketing, ASO, and Product stakeholders to identify opportunities that benefit from UA creative support
Collaborate with art leads to develop concepts that explore creative opportunity spaces
Review and guide briefing with feedback specifically aimed at ensuring ads effectively execute against strategic objectives
Define KPI targets for creative initiatives
Ensure timely delivery of new creatives to UA
Monthly
Provide updates to cross-functional stakeholders on UA creative strategy and production
Package past work into digestible case studies that level up team-wide creative knowledge
Guide and feedback monthly competitor research projects produced by Art teams
Weekly
Attend meetings with UA, Art, Production, & Analysts to track production, UA performance, and creative needs/priorities
Ad-Hoc
Lead creative strategy & production initiatives from conception to completion outside the scope of normal creative production
Identify and implement process improvements across creative planning functions
Define creative reporting needs
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