Senior Producer - New Midcore Game Team

Zynga, a global leader in social games, is currently seeking a full-time Senior Producer on an exciting unannounced title. Join a growing team building something new to Zynga!

We are looking for a passionate producer and leader to manage scheduling and coordination for the art and content development team pipelines on an unannounced title. Qualified individuals are proactive, with excellent interpersonal skills who’ve worked across art, engineering, and design, and have a consistent track record in management of both internal team members and external outsourcing partners.

This Senior Producer owns communication between their production team and leads, creating and maintaining work readiness, blocker removals and scheduling information while leading a pod. A crucial part of the producer role is the communication of the key daily, weekly and quarterly goals, achievements, issues, concerns and features to the development /production team while aligning a group toward a shared vision and supporting a subset of priorities and planning ceremonies.

Under the daily direction of the Lead Producer, work will encompass proactively identifying, describing, tracking and reviewing tasks for development team members, the organization and management of individual, departmental and project-wide scheduling information, identification of task dependencies, multi-discipline coordination, review meetings, progress and status updates, as well as scrum and agile ceremony facilitation.

Main Responsibilities

• Partner with production and team leads to deliver on the production goals and schedule.
• Identify and coordinate dependencies at the feature and/or pod level.
• Manage capacity and understand velocity of a creative and/or feature team.
• Facilitate team conversations, retrospectives and opportunities to speak courageously, through team ceremonies (including standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, discipline syncs, feature kickoffs) and scrum of scrums.
• Collaborate with your team to ensure that key developmental and production objectives are satisfied.
• Prepare realistic project schedules for the development team, including key dates and reviews and all readiness workbacks.
• Leverage curiosity data to inspire new questions, behavior, and conversation within iterative development.
• Implement work/project tracking through JIRA and scope management tools and processes.
• Coordinate efforts for content and release tracking
• Proactively identify risks to meeting key dates including licensor submission and release schedules, ensuring appropriate steps are taken to mitigate risks
• Communicate regularly with team members in all directions on project status.
• Foster and maintain a positive culture and work environment.
• Serve as an internal game critic and champion of quality while advocating for the player!

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years production experience with one or more complete development cycles in a game production role. Have shipped at least one game or equivalent subset of globally-facing large features.
• Experience working with globally distributed team members with diverse personalities and perspectives while creating a highly collaborative and communicative environment.
• Comfortable providing leaders with feedback both on project risks and team dynamics impacting team health.
• Outstanding organization, communication and influence skills, where owning the outcomes is navigated by your ability to wrangle cats aka keep several individuals on track with deliverables.
• Strong experience with Scrum/Agile/Waterfall development and rapid iteration cycles, with an understanding of how to best lead teams through various approaches.
• 5+ years of experience using Jira, Airtable, or other project management and task coordination software.
• 3+ years of experience with Trello, Miro, Favro, or other virtual collaboration tools for distributed teams preferred.
• Familiarity with creative pipelines and tools including Figma, P4, Maya, Zbrush, and/or Unity strongly preferred.
• Experience leading highly engaged multidisciplinary teams
• Must be a self-motivated detail-oriented problem solver with a strong desire to contribute in a uniquely creative environment.
• Prior experience establishing and being the steward of change management improvements across a team of 20+ people.
• Previous experience in mobile games, core games, and/or live games a plus.

Note: Even if you don’t think you’re a 100% perfect skills fit, our team is looking for attitude above aptitude, and would love to talk if you think your qualifications come close to what we’re looking for.

Candidates in Austin, Texas area are preferred. This role will be hybrid will need to report into a Zynga office location.

What we offer you:

• Competitive salary, bonus plan and ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
• 401K Company Match Contribution (US)
• RRSP/DPSP company match contribution (Canada)
• Health coverage, dental, disability, critical illness, EAP, and life insurance (Canada)
• Medical, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance, and disability benefits (US)
• Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Global Fitness reimbursement program
• Global Wellbeing Program
• Financial wellness program with unlimited access to certified financial planners
• Discretionary Time Off policy for many employees
• Family planning support program
• Generous paid parental, pregnancy-related disability, caregiver, and compassionate leaves
• Subsidized Back-up child care
• Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players

The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $87,000 and $145,000 per year.

However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome job-seekers, players, employees, and partners from all backgrounds to join us!

We will consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at AccommodationRequest@zynga.com to request an accommodation associated with your application for an open position.

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