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Careers Category: Game Design Careers location: Bengaluru, India Connected Worker Type: Connected Requisition Id: R_109939 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. Zynga is looking for a Associate Game Designer who can help drive the creation of new features on some of Zynga\'s top games. The Associate 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 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. 2+ 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 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. 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 Zynga does not engage in financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process. We do not conduct job interviews over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp or others. We will never ask you for your personal or financial information over unofficial chat channels. Our in-house recruitment team only contacts individuals via official company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com or naturalmotion.com email domain). If you believe you have been the victim of a scam, you may wish to contact the authorities. In the United States, you may file a complaint with the FBI. More information is available here: https://www.ic3.gov.

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