Senior Manager, Operations

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Gaming
The Role
The Senior Manager of Operations at Zynga will coordinate and implement strategic business plans, analyze business initiatives, and drive operational efficiency across studios. This role involves collaborating with corporate functions and creating executive-level presentations, while maintaining organization and supporting business communications.
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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

Zynga is looking for an exceptional Senior Manager, Operations who is self-motivated, detail-oriented, autonomous, and highly organized. This is a hybridized role that focuses on reviewing the interconnected pieces of broadspanning initiatives with the executive team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business management, process optimization, and be able to complete the analysis of business initiatives. Come join us, thrive, take risks and dream big to shape the future of the fastest growing gaming company.

What You'll Do: 

  • Coordinate and implement the strategic business plan, operational objectives, corporate integration initiatives, and projects across multiple entities under Take Two.

  • Work independently to gather data, provide analysis, and give recommendations for business planning and financial scenarios/forecasting for P&L. Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation.

  • Direct the creation of communication materials for the supported business, which includes the implementation of improvements and processes to better inform employees and management. Provide support on the creation of executive and board level presentations.

  • Draft business communications, executive board updates, dashboards and other sensitive materials on behalf of the leadership team.

  • Liaison with T2 corporate functions, Zynga labels and internal unnamed programs, where necessary (e.g. legal, HR, finance).

  • Additionally, be a liaison between the many studios within Zynga to help provide a concierge-esk level of service as we continue to share technology across studios.

  • Drive strategic initiatives across studios that are deemed imperative to the business.

What You Bring:

  • 5+ years of operations or project management experience in the tech industry, leading software engineering initiatives.

  • Clear and confident communicator and collaborator. Able to lead business initiatives, build teams, and generate clear presentations that summarize projects, share knowledge, and drive improvements.

  • Self-motivated, autonomous, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and maturity under pressure.

  • Collaborative by nature, quickly and easily builds relationships, ensures open dialog, engenders trust and partners well within a team to deliver results.

  • Highly organized. Able to track and maintain large volumes of documentation for archival and retrieval purposes.

  • Thrives in ambiguity, drives toward clarity. 

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 site. 

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

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, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).  

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,449 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone.

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