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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.\nFrom 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!\nFounded 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.\nJoin us and be part of the play!\nPosition Overview :\n Zynga's data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games.\nHere's where you would come in: as a Principal Analyst, you will be a strategic thought leader and technical expert within the analytics organization - setting the bar for analytical excellence, pioneering new methodologies, and shaping the long-term data strategy across one or more studios. You will identify and formalize the most complex, ambiguous problems to understand user behavior at scale. You'll create systems, frameworks, and analyses that fundamentally change how studios think about their players and their business.\nWe will rely on you to influence organizational direction through compelling narratives delivered to both technical peers and executive stakeholders. Your solutions to the problems will need to be demonstrably impactful, scalable, and adopted broadly. You will partner with senior leadership to inform portfolio-level decisions, mentor and elevate fellow analysts, and drive a culture of data-informed decision-making across Zynga.\nWhat You'll Do :\nDefine and shape the analytics strategy for one or more games, aligning analytical investment with long-term business objectives\nIndependently identify high-impact, ambiguous problems and drive them from conception to measurable business outcomes - influencing roadmaps and investment decisions at the studio or org level\nImplement novel analytical methodologies (statistical modelling, ML, causal inference, etc.) and advocate for their adoption across the broader analytics organization\nOwn architecture-level decisions on modelling approaches, data infrastructure, or measurement frameworks that other teams and analysts will build on\nDeliver analytics and data science projects that substantially move core game metrics, setting the standard for rigor, creativity, and business impact\nInfluence senior and executive leadership through data-driven storytelling, shifting organizational strategy in line with new findings and insights\nMentor and develop senior and junior analysts, elevating the craft and building analytical capabilities across the team\nDrive and empower game studios to make quantitatively informed, evidence-based decisions through scalable source-of-truth data platforms, frameworks, and dashboards\nLead the design, testing, verification, and implementation of machine learning models and product features within Zynga's games that impact millions of users\nChampion best practices in experimentation, data governance, and analytical reproducibility org-wide\nWhat You Bring :\nBS in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field; Masters, MBA, or PhD strongly preferred\n8+ years of work experience in data science or analytics roles, with progressive increases in scope and impact\nFluent in SQL; strong programming skills in Python; adept in atleast one visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, or equivalent\nDeep expertise in statistics, experimental design, causal inference, machine learning, and/or deep learning - with a track record of production-scale deployment\nExtensive experience analyzing large datasets \nProven track record of leading complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem framing through production impact, with minimal direction\nDemonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive org-wide strategic change through data\nExperience mentoring and growing other data scientists and analysts\nProven ability to define analytics strategy or build analytics capabilities from the ground up\nExceptional written and oral communication skills - able to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable narratives for executive audiences\nAbility to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous, complex problem spaces with minimal direction\nAbility to collaborate effectively across disciplines - engineering, product, design, marketing, and studio leadership - to deliver unambiguous business impact\nStrong passion for gaming!\nBonus Points :\n Experience in gaming, mobile, or consumer tech industries.\nWhat We Offer You : \nZynga 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\nWe 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.\nAs 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  to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.\nPlease 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. 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