Senior Producer - Game Components

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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.

What You Bring:

• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Computer science or technical degree.
• Agile certifications.
• Experience running a team who works on projects and supports live services and products simultaneously.

What We Offer You:

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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