Zynga
Senior Director, Data Platform
Toronto, Canada · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
BigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftDatabricksAWSKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowdbtData VisualizationLLMsRAGA/B TestingProduct StrategyOnboardingEpicLeadership
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About the role
- Operating with high autonomy and direct executive sponsorship, you will act as a pathfinder: empowering our global studios to extract maximum value from central data and transforming the group to an AI-first way of working.
Responsibilities
- Drive AI adoption: Champion an AI-first approach, pushing teams to innovate and leverage clean, trusted data for advanced AI/ML capabilities.
- Navigate and execute: Guide the team through organizational change while maintaining global alignment and building effective processes and outcomes.
- Drive AI adoption:
- Relocation support is available.
- Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Requirements
- Executive leadership: A track record leading global, matrixed teams of tenured leaders, with strong executive presence across studios, labels, and executive stakeholders.
- AI/ML expertise: A proven, hands-on track record of shipping AI/ML systems to production-feature/training pipelines, deployment, and monitoring.
- Familiarity with modern LLM and agentic patterns (RAG, semantic layers, MCP-style tooling) is a strong need.
- Technical pedigree: A deep engineering background-including hands-on IC experience earlier in your career-with the depth to make architectural calls across a modern cloud data stack: cloud data warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery), streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark), orchestration and transformation (Airflow, dbt), and lakehouse/ML platforms (Databricks, SageMaker). Highly technical product leaders on the data side are also encouraged to apply.
- AI/ML expertise: A proven, hands-on track record of shipping AI/ML systems to production-feature/training pipelines, deployment, and monitoring. Familiarity with modern LLM and agentic patterns (RAG, semantic layers, MCP-style tooling) is a strong need. This is a critical, non-negotiable requirement.
- Platform depth: Demonstrated ownership of large-scale, cloud-native data platforms on AWS-modeling, batch and streaming pipelines, cost/performance optimization, reliability (SLOs, observability), and data quality at scale.
- Semantic layer & governance: Experience scaling semantic/metrics layers and self-serve analytics (dbt, metrics stores, Tableau/Lightdash) and familiarity with experimentation platforms and data privacy/compliance frameworks.
- Cross-functional leadership: Comfort managing non-engineering functions (Product and Production) and translating technical concepts into clear business value for executives and non-engineers.
- Bonus Points:
- Previous leadership experience within the gaming industry. Candidates from top-tier tech, consumer tech, or large-scale enterprise tech are also highly encouraged to apply.
Nice to have
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- 15+ years in data or software engineering, including 8+ years leading and scaling engineering organizations, with experience managing managers (Directors and Senior Managers).
- Executive leadership:
Benefits
- Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams.
- To find out more, visit the Zynga Benefits site.
- Craft data product strategy: Define, roadmap, and execute the product strategy for Zynga's centralized data products, translating vision into initiatives that empower global studios.
Company info
- At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play.
- Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences.
- 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.
- Lead a global team: Manage, mentor, and grow a diverse team of ~60 across North America, Israel, and India-including Directors, Senior Managers, and non-engineering functions such as Product and Program Management.
- We are proud to be an
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Operating with high autonomy and direct executive sponsorship, you will act as a pathfinder: empowering our global studios to extract maximum value from central data and transforming the group to an AI-first way of working.
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