Technical Art Intern (Words With Friends) - Summer 2025

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:

Words With Friends is looking for a Technical Art intern to contribute to our projects.

Are you an individual who is enthusiastic about learning to make games? Whether you are interested in rigging, shaders, scripting or other aspects of technical art, we will evaluate your skill set and set you up with an experienced Technical Artist to work hands-on, developing content in our game.

Technical artists work with, and coordinate between, engineers and artists. They collaborate with both groups to ensure the game art meets technical requirements as well as function in the game as defined by design or art direction. On WWF, this work takes place in the Unity game development engine.

What You'll Do: 

You’ll get to work on a known, popular game that's been around for over 15 years! You will have hands-on learning experiences with the Unity Game Engine. Learning about User Interface design and layouts and how to create them in the Unity Editor. You’ll have the opportunity to build simple animations within the game and some fun, eye-catching visual effects with the built-in particles system. Our UI, Art, and TA teams are closely integrated, and you’ll be a part of that, helping us design the game for the future and maybe even fix a few bugs along the way!

What You Bring: 

This Technical Art summer internship is for new graduates who will have graduated from a Canadian college or university between June 2024 to May 2025. This role is connected to Zynga’s Toronto office.

• Interest in both the technical and artistic aspects of game development
• Enthusiasm for being challenged with technically difficult tasks
• Understanding of high level programming language like python, C# or shader languages like HLSL
• Familiarity with Unity
• Coursework showing an interest in art either art history and/or art classes
• A simple portfolio would be appreciated
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Confidence in communicating with artists and engineers about their fields, being able to flex your communication style and collaborate across different team members
• In this role, you will be learning to coordinate needs and expectations of both engineers and artists

What We Offer You : 

• Daily lunches, tons of snacks and beverages 
• Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players

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.

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