Lead Game Designer
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Job Description
Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
At Zynga we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of TakeTwo Interactive our games have been downloaded over 6 billion timesconnecting players in 175 countries through fun strategy and a little friendly competition.
From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles mindbending puzzles and social word challenges our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fanfavorites and latest hits include FarmVille Words With Friends Zynga Poker Game of Thrones Slots Casino Wizard of Oz Slots Hit it Rich! Slots Wonka Slots Top Eleven Toon Blast Empires & Puzzles Merge Dragons! CSR Racing Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells Match Factory and Color Block Jamplus many more!
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California our teams span North America Europe and Asia working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether youre spinning strategizing matching or competing Zynga is where fun meets innovationand where you can take your career to the next level.
Join us and be part of the play!
Position Overview:
Zynga is looking for a Lead Game Designer who can help drive the creation of new features on some of Zyngas top games. The Lead Game Designer will add experience direction and measurable performance to the game design process.
What Youll Do:
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.
What You Bring:
Deep understanding of games and what makes them fun both as gamer and a professional.
Experience in leading a team of designers.
9 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.
Experience designing mobile F2P games
Strong feature design experience
Excel skills to model and balance game systems and create complex game systems from scratch.
Experience and interest with playerdriven economies
Understanding of game balance including statistics virtual goods economics and user motivations
Excellent communication critical thinking analysis skills.
Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience we further value candidates with graduate degrees and/or top tier university pedigree.
What We Offer You :
Zynga offers a worldclass benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit the Zynga Benefits
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Employment Type
Full Time
