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Senior Manager - Game Analytics

Why Zynga

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games. To date, more than one billion people have played Zynga’s franchises including CSR Racing™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Toon Blast™, Toy Blast™, Words With Friends™ and Zynga Poker™. Zynga’s games are available in more than 150 countries and are playable across social platforms and mobile devices worldwide. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with locations in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, India, Turkey, and Finland. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog.

Zynga India:

Zynga India is Zynga’s largest studio outside USA with 500+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of Zynga’s biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The Zynga India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expects continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

Role Overview

The Senior Manager role will oversee the vision, quality of delivery and impact from data science & analytics across the Studio-I game portfolio and global org, with a team of managers and ICs. The role would require you to work alongside business cross-functional leads as a trusted partner and advisor on data strategy aimed at enhancing the end to end experience for our players, right from install through engagement for audience growth.

The Senior Manager would also be tasked with building, retaining and nurturing a high performing team of managers and ICs, ensuring that Zynga is not just a job but a career destination for everyone. Culture being a critical component of life at Zynga, we would also expect you to positively influence our culture in analytics and beyond based on your unique experiences, and sustain it through active investment in people development. Cultivating collaboration within discipline and x-discipline.

The final facet of this role would be to collaborate with peers and leaders across the analytics org globally to help develop core competency of the function as well as explore synergies that may provide ROI at scale or opportunities for individual growth

We are looking for a leader who flexes their style between being visionary, results oriented, relationship focused and a centred thinker; with a proven track record in driving end-to-end analytics and an appetite to challenge the status quo. Past experience should include a mastery curve through the following foundational elements -

• Managing and reviewing analytics delivery spanning telemetry, data pipelines, investigations, business intelligence, reporting, ML solutions, experiments and long-term strategic initiatives
• Working with diverse stakeholders from product, marketing, design and engineering to design a cohesive analytics strategy that not only addresses the immediate business goals, but sets up a consistent pipeline for the future
• Recruiting and retaining high performance teams by investing actively in career growth. Mentoring analysts, data scientists and managers on technical skills, strategic thinking, career goals and long-term vision as a part of formal feedback mechanism
• Ideate with partner studios, central analytics and engineering to invest in the future of analytics through better tools, platforms, scaled solutions or packaged products for end consumption. Tying these opportunities back to individual career development would be a key strength

Must have:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in technical/quantitative field; Masters desirable.
• 10+ years related work experience in Analytics with large datasets,, 5+ years in leading high performing teams of 10+ including: organizational talent planning: hiring, retaining and investing in growth for performance.
• Strong business acumen and ability to evangelize an up-to-date awareness of where analytics/data science can be leveraged to provide business value across all levels and disciplines.
• Consistent and proven track record as a leader across responsibilities that have scaled in complexity, leading to demonstrated ability to grow analytical capabilities and deliver strong results.
• A skilled senior leader able to motivate individuals and groups to tackle complex problems and confidently work on often open-ended challenges that will result in tools and methods that deliver impact
• Proven track record in sharing complex results, recommendations and actions in a style that best fits the audience for maximum engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to be a partner, identify winning opportunities and determine complex resolutions cross functionally where needed (e.g. engineers, product managers, analysts, business, and marketing functions at all levels).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, that allow collaboration and influencing at all levels and cross-functionally, with the right expectation management

Ideally have:

• Enjoys analytics, but has a strong track record in data science methods and a passion for both to keep up with emerging market trends and identify opportunities within the business locally and globally
• Experience working in gaming or other technical consumer product facing industries is a bonus
• Experience with different programming languages (e.g. SQL/R/Python) and environments such as Snowflake, Redshift or Spark, to enable guiding team discussions to determine best solutions or understand cost/quality when planning

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What we offer you

• 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
• Competitive salary, bonus plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 20 days annual leave + company holidays
• Extended medical coverage that includes OPD, dental, vision and telehealth
• Group Life, Disability and Critical Illness insurance
• Equitable Childcare facilities for all employees
• Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Family planning and nurturing support programs
• Comprehensive leave options and flexible working hours to ensure work life balance.
• Keep your health on track with our wellbeing programs covering fitness expenses and complimentary meals served around the clock
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Around the year employee events and casual dress every single day
• A diverse team of friendly, fun and supportive co-workers to work with and, impact millions of daily players
• Re-engage with your special interest by being a part of our employee resource groups that connect Zyngites through inclusivity, culture, lifestyle and fun