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Senior Game Designer

Zynga is looking for a Senior Game Designer who can help drive the creation of new features on some of Zynga’s top games. The Senior Game Designer will add experience, direction, and measurable performance to the game design process.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of games and what makes them fun, both as gamer and a professional.
• Experience in leading a team of designers.
• 5+ 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.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, analysis skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience, we further value candidates with graduate degrees and/or top tier university pedigree.

What we offer:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Create next-gen games that will be played and loved by millions of players around the world
• Work in a collaborative team that invests in your development and growth on-the-job
• Extended Health coverage, disability, critical illness and life insurance
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Family planning support program
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Frequent employee events
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• A diverse team of friendly, fun and supportive co-workers
• Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups that connect Zyngites through culture, lifestyle and fun