Senior Data Analyst - Portfolio Analytics

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more!

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.

Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview:

Zynga’s mission is to connect the world through games. Its vision was that gaming would become a mass market activity, and "play" would be an important verb in our daily lives. As a part of this vision, Zynga Analytics partners with studios to release and grow multiple games, while also being responsible for the analytics stack and central tools.

Zynga’s Data Science and Analytics team uses our outstanding and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We continually strive to better understand our players and provide them with experiences that surprise and delight.

We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support cross-functional initiatives across product, marketing and central analytics. As a part of the Central Analytics team, this role will go beyond reactive reporting by building scalable, AI-driven analytics solutions and acting as a thought partner in shaping strategy. The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills with ability to influence through data, helping automate ad-hoc requests and uncover insights that drive measurable impact across the business. 

Be innovative, be creative, use every bit of that key commodity – data. Millions of people play Zynga games every day, so our data is tremendously rich, and we have a lot of it!

What You'll Do:

• Work with large amounts of data to find opportunities to improve the experience that Zynga provides to its players
• Build scalable analytics solutions to monitor product health, player behavior, and business performance
• Partner with cross-functional teams to surface insights and deliver actionable recommendations
• Collaborate with Game Analytics and Product Managers to validate hypotheses through cohort and behavioral analysis, challenge assumptions with evidence-based alternatives
• Proactively explore and prototype opportunities using AI-driven automation to streamline investigations and improve decision-making

What You Bring:

• Proficiency in SQL and Python with hands-on experience in Redshift, Databricks, PySpark, Airflow and DBT
• Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau
• Understanding of B2C app metrics and KPIs, performance monitoring, and insights
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous questions into data-driven insights
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or experience in automating recurring analytics workflows is a plus
• Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: data mining, optimization, experimental design, computational analytics, econometric modeling.
• 4+ years of work experience in data analytics or data science roles 
• BS in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field; Master's, MBA, or PhD 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 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 accommodationrequest@zynga.com 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).