Senior Game Designer

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Join us and be part of the play

Zynga is looking for an experienced Senior Game Designer to work on a popular social game. This role analyzes game structure/features to optimize player experience. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to innovate and iterate player-focused designs.

What You'll Do:

• Build or adapt leading game features to work with an existing game

• Pitch new ideas to the team/ hold brainstorming sessions

• Tune and model complex systems using Excel

• Write copy, names, and narrative elements of game

• Analyze real-time feedback and metrics, and adjust game designs accordingly

• Work with product managers, developers and artists to supervise the implementation of new features and systems

• Ability to describe user experience stories and create wireframe screens and flows

• Remain up-to-date with Game Design literature and standard methodologies to be an evangelist for the craft of Game Design

Desired Skills and Experience

• 6 years experience or knowledge of casual mobile games

• Expert with math and formulas in game environment

• Basic understanding of game genres and strategies

• Solid knowledge of game balancing and pacing

• Management experience, preferably with an experienced design team

• Adept with Excel/spreadsheets

• Passionate gamer

• 2 shipped games

• Game programming background preferred

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

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