Senior Producer - Game Components
Apply NowCompany: Zynga
Location: Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1
Description:
Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
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.
From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Game of Thrones Slots Casino, Wizard of Oz Slots, Hit it Rich! Slots, Wonka Slots, Top Eleven, Toon Blast, Empires & Puzzles, Merge Dragons!, CSR Racing, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, Match Factory, and Color Block Jam-plus many more!
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:
Our mission at Zynga is to connect the world through games by building games around core social experiences to deliver deep player engagement, organic acquisition, and long-term retention. Join us at Zynga making an impact across all of the company's games - Mobile Game Technology!
Zynga is looking for a highly motivated Senior Technical Project Manager/Senior Producer to join our outstanding Production team. The immediate area of responsibility would be leading the Core pod within the Game Components team; however, as you grow into the role, you will own additional initiatives.
You will work with engineering leadership, product management, other producers and game/partner teams to balance a set of commitments with predictable execution. You should be able to facilitate tough trade-offs along the way, take care of and tackle any team challenges and be tactical enough to know when to roll up your sleeves. You should proactively spot areas for improvement, then energetically drive those improvements all the while encouraging a feeling of teamwork and common purpose within the team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
What You'll Do:
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
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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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga's in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).
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.
From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Game of Thrones Slots Casino, Wizard of Oz Slots, Hit it Rich! Slots, Wonka Slots, Top Eleven, Toon Blast, Empires & Puzzles, Merge Dragons!, CSR Racing, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, Match Factory, and Color Block Jam-plus many more!
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:
Our mission at Zynga is to connect the world through games by building games around core social experiences to deliver deep player engagement, organic acquisition, and long-term retention. Join us at Zynga making an impact across all of the company's games - Mobile Game Technology!
Zynga is looking for a highly motivated Senior Technical Project Manager/Senior Producer to join our outstanding Production team. The immediate area of responsibility would be leading the Core pod within the Game Components team; however, as you grow into the role, you will own additional initiatives.
You will work with engineering leadership, product management, other producers and game/partner teams to balance a set of commitments with predictable execution. You should be able to facilitate tough trade-offs along the way, take care of and tackle any team challenges and be tactical enough to know when to roll up your sleeves. You should proactively spot areas for improvement, then energetically drive those improvements all the while encouraging a feeling of teamwork and common purpose within the team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
What You'll Do:
- Provide hands-on senior-level project/program management for a team that has multiple critical engineering projects, within our Mobile Game Technology Game Components team.
- Manage capacity for the team. Tracks the throughput and velocity of the team.
- Ability to drive projects on time, within budget and at the required level of quality.
- Anticipate challenges, proactively analyze risk by tracking and monitoring project progress and resource availability, and course correct as needed on the fly.
- Partner closely with engineering leaders, product managers and other producers to implement the product roadmap.
- Lead technical scrums and agile project implementation.
- Initiate, cultivate, maintain and lead others toward positive working relationships with internal and external organizations critical to both current and future development process.
- Passionately articulate goals and team principles to help form a stimulating and fun work environment and culture.
- Identify process gaps and support the creation of repeatable processes, while improving existing project management policies and processes.
- 5+ years of program/project management experience.
- 3+ years experience leading technology agile scrum teams. Comfortable working in a hybrid waterfall/agile setting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment with maturity and leadership.
- Ability to navigate complex scenarios with customers through the use of tact, conflict resolution, and bargaining skills.
- Data analysis skills to track project progress and team performance.
- Ability to lead under ambiguity, balancing multiple work-streams and priorities.
- Computer science or technical degree.
- Agile certifications.
- Experience running a team who works on projects and supports live services and products simultaneously.
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
#LI-RK2
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga's in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).