Zynga is looking for a Producer - 6 month Contract to work with our Words With Friends team. We are looking for a talented, motivated and experienced individual to help oversee our development processes from pre production to post release and into live operations in a collaborative team environment. Qualified individuals are expected to be organized, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a proven track record in management of software development for internal studios.
Responsibilities:
- Partners with team leadership to create processes and project plans that allow the team to efficiently produce a high quality product on time and on budget
- Working with the team leadership, defines the operational properties of project development, including development processes, production planning, status reporting, risk management, and resource management.
- Builds and maintains schedules across multiple projects to ensure successful and timely delivery of production milestones. Works with team leaders and discipline leads to evaluate change requests, the costs/benefits of the changes and impact on schedules and obtain appropriate approvals for agreed changes.
- Works collaboratively with GM, EP and team leaders on defining and refining the overall project roadmap, the necessary milestones and delivery timing
- Provides regular project status reporting on deliveries, identifying any potential risks with proposed solutions, and communicates this clearly on a routine basis to team and project stakeholders
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years production experience with one or more complete development cycles in a production role
- Must have shipped more than one game and/or been involved with more than one project through a complete development cycle
- Demonstrates exceptional organization, communication, and management skills
- Experience with Agile/Waterfall/SCRUM development with hard deadlines
- Proven ability to work under rapid development cycles.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Must be self-directed, detail oriented and a problem solver with a burning desire to contribute to a uniquely creative environment
- Functional use of Jira, Asana, Google Suite, considered a plus
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