Senior Producer 1

Who We Are:

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars™: Hunters, CSR Racing™, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven, Toy Blast™, Two Dots, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog

Position Overview

Are you passionate about games and love keeping teams coordinated, motivated, and firing on all cylinders?  Zynga, a global leader in social games, is currently seeking a full-time Senior Producer to manage the scheduling and coordination of development processes on Words with Friends. If you’re an organized, proactive leader with excellent interpersonal skills and a proven track record of managing both internal teams and external partners, we want to hear from you! 

This Senior Producer owns communication between their team, production and leads, creating and maintaining task lists and scheduling information. A crucial part of the producer role is the communication of the key daily, weekly and quarterly goals, achievements, issues, concerns and features to the development /production team.

Under the direction of the Lead Producer, work will encompass identifying, describing, tracking and reviewing tasks for development team members, the organization and management of individual, departmental and project-wide scheduling information, identification of task dependencies, multi-discipline coordination, review meetings, and status updates.

Come help shape the future of Words with Friends and be part of a team that loves making games as much as you love playing them!

Main Responsibilities

• Partner with production and team leads to handle the production schedule.
• Identify and coordinate dependencies at the feature or pod level.
• Manage capacity and understand velocity of the feature team.
• Collaborate with your team to ensure that key developmental and production objectives are satisfied.
• Prepare realistic project schedules for the development team, including key dates and reviews
• Implement project tracking through JIRA and scope management processes
• Coordinate efforts for content and release tracking
• Proactively identifies risks to meeting key dates including licensor submission and release schedules, ensuring appropriate steps are taken to mitigate risks
• Communicate regularly with team members in all directions on project status.
• Foster and maintain a positive culture and work environment.
• Serves as an internal game critic, and champion of quality while advocating for the player! 

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years production experience with one or more complete development cycles in a production role
• Shown experience as a Producer within game development production. Must have shipped at least one game and/or been involved with one project through a complete development cycle.
• Outstanding organization, communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile/Waterfall development.
• Consistent track record working in rapid development cycles and live games
• Experience leading highly engaged multidisciplinary teams
• Must be a self-motivated detail oriented problem solver with a s