Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games – Central Technology! We focus on shared client & server technology and features that drive the underlying gameplay experience. We’re looking for outstanding leaders with a passion for technology and the ability to work with a diverse team. As a TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER for Central Technology, you will be responsible for providing Product Management leadership in the design, development, and maintenance of Zynga’s platform portfolio, which accelerates game development and streamlines live operations. The immediate area of responsibility would be managing the DevOps team within Developer Services that manages the game development infrastructure.
You will help craft the vision for central services at Zynga, and ensure that game teams can develop and deliver compelling experiences for players across mobile, console, and PC. You will partner with engineers, senior leadership, and other internal partners across multiple studios to build & improve processes and tools for cross-platform development and sustainable operations for our cross-platform future.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for the full product lifecycle, from gathering requirements, prioritizing features, analyzing the competitive landscape, writing specifications, achieving stakeholder alignment, and owning the team roadmap.
- Exhibit sound product judgment, ability to formulate product strategy and present clear measurable objectives that will lead to achieving our business goals.
- Expected to provide valuable input into business cases based on in-depth data analysis and demonstrate how that analysis impacts key product metrics.
- Define how we will measure the success and effectiveness of products and track quality. Make use of qualitative consumer insights and quantitative data to inform decisions.
- Define our vision by understanding our customers' needs. Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders on game teams crafting feedback loops for continued improvements and identify patterns of need across Zynga.
- Evangelize our offerings. Get commitments from internal customers and achieve roadmap alignment. Be able to clearly articulate the value of developer and infrastructure related technology initiatives and help our partner teams understand that value as it applies to the problems that they’re looking to solve.
- Identify & deconstruct competitive offerings in the market, formulate insights and use them to inform future roadmap direction.
- Ability to balance player, partner, and business interests while considering technical integration tradeoffs.
- Collaborate closely with other technical leaders in Central Technology and across disciplines to drive standard methodologies and positive team culture.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- BS degree in Computer Science preferred and/or equivalent software development experience.
- 3+ years of software development or product management experience in games, mobile apps, or enterprise software.
- Ability to build wire-frames, product specifications, and white papers.
- Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive staff.
- Familiarity with source control, operating systems (basic Linux commands, etc), data analytics, package managers, monitoring tools, and SQL preferred.
- Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical abilities, and attention to detail.
- Be a self-starter, a great teammate and driven.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing 3rd party vendors a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU:
- Zynga Stock RSUs and Bonus Plan
- Full medical, dental, vision benefits as well as life insurance
- Catered lunch daily (when we are back in the office)
- Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
- Open vacation policy for many employees
- Flexible working hours on many teams
- Casual dress every single day
- Work with cool people!
Zynga is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud of our diverse community; we do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates, players, employees, and partners from all backgrounds. Join us!
Zynga will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Zynga is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.
