Senior Game Designer

Job Description

WHY ZYNGA

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. Our portfolio of games – CSR Racing 2, FarmVille, Hit it Rich! Slots, Words With
Friends and Zynga Poker – span some of the fastest growing mobile gaming categories including Action Strategy, Casual, Social Casino and Invest Express. While we invest in our live games, we are also proud to be one of the first gaming companies innovating in emerging platforms like Facebook Messenger and Google Play Instant. Come join us, thrive, take risks and dream big to shape the future of the fastest growing gaming platform – mobile. Zynga is looking for a Senior Game Designer who can help drive the creation of new features on some of Zynga’s top games. The Senior Game Designer will add experience, direction, and measurable performance to the game design process.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You Own, drive, and communicate the vision for major design initiatives
• Recruit and train designers for your initiatives.
• Work closely with product managers, producers, engineers, and artists to design and prototype new gameplay and systems.
• Build and improve tools to make the design pipeline faster and more efficient for the team.
• Be the advocate of good design practices across the studio.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Deep understanding of games and what makes them fun, both as gamer and a professional.
• Experience in leading a team of designers.
• 4+ years of professional game development experience as a game designer, experience with system game design.
• Widely played, especially with online and mobile games, with the ability to articulate what is strong/weak about the design of existing games.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, analysis skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience, we further value candidates with graduate degrees and/or top tier university pedigree.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and Zynga RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women at Zynga
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!