Lead Game Designer

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Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

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Position Overview:

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

What You'll Do:

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.

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 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

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).