Technical Art Intern (Poker) - 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:

Zynga Poker is the most popular mobile poker game in the world! We pride ourselves as the home for authentic gameplay and a friendly poker community. As a creative team we strive to produce best-in-class art and design, while creating new and engaging experiences that touch millions of players.

We are looking for a Technical Artist Intern who can help us create and build first class experiences! If you're a dedicated, curious, and a highly motivated tech artist who loves problem solving with our Artists and Engineers, you will be a phenomenal fit for our diverse and creative team.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with the Art and Engineering teams to construct and implement game assets (specifically UI) in Unity.
• Create animations and visual effects within Unity.
• Create materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit outstanding visual quality.
• Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of the game’s final visual assets.
• Work effectively to address any art-related bugs.
• Define, maintain and troubleshoot pipeline for in game assets.
• Develop and maintain tools for the production pipeline, particularly for animation and technical art tasks.
• Create, maintain, and communicate technical art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members.
• Maintain clean, optimized project, periodically auditing assets and sprite atlases, etc.
• Profile builds and provide and implement solutions to address performance issues

What You Bring:

This Technical Art internship is for those who will have graduated from a US college or university between June 2024 to June 2025. This role is connected to Zynga’s Chicago office.

• Effective communication with team members of varying disciplines including written documentation of pipeline processes
• Advanced knowledge of Unity and/or other engines.
• Proficient with Unity UI and 2D UI
• Intermediate knowledge with Animation and VFX
• Intermediate programming skills, specially on C# and Unity API
• Knowledge with 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush is a plus
• Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory and performance considerations
• Intermediate skills for creating high quality VFX particle systems in Unity
• Understanding of graphics and rendering methods
• Advanced knowledge on creating and modifying materials, writing shaders is a plus
• Core Adobe Creative Suite skills
• Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools vital for art implementation and optimization
• Proven ability developing Game designs
• Understanding of debugging and profiling tools
• Advance knowledge with version control software such as Perforce, Git

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.

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).