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About the Role
The Senior Director, Data Platform will lead Zynga's centralized data platform and product strategy, managing one of the largest data footprints in the gaming industry. This role operates with high autonomy and direct executive sponsorship, empowering global studios to extract maximum value from central data and transforming the group to an AI-first way of working. This highly visible role partners closely with studio leaders, central teams, and executives across Zynga's global labels.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Drive AI adoption: Champion an AI-first approach, pushing teams to innovate and leverage clean, trusted data for advanced AI/ML capabilities.
- 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.
- Oversee data governance: Establish robust data compliance and governance frameworks for a massive, global data footprint.
- Navigate and execute: Guide the team through organizational change while maintaining global alignment and building effective processes and outcomes.
Requirements
- 15+ years in data or software engineering, including 8+ years leading and scaling engineering organizations, with experience managing managers (Directors and Senior Managers).
- A track record leading global, matrixed teams of tenured leaders, with strong executive presence across studios, labels, and executive stakeholders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience scaling semantic/metrics layers and self-serve analytics (dbt, metrics stores, Tableau/Lightdash) and familiarity with experimentation platforms and data privacy/compliance frameworks.
- Comfort managing non-engineering functions (Product and Production) and translating technical concepts into clear business value for executives and non-engineers.
- 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.
Skills
- Cloud data warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark)
- Orchestration and transformation (Airflow, dbt)
- Lakehouse/ML platforms (Databricks, SageMaker)
- AI/ML systems
- LLM and agentic patterns (RAG, semantic layers, MCP-style tooling)
- AWS
- Semantic/metrics layers
- Self-serve analytics (dbt, metrics stores, Tableau/Lightdash)
- Experimentation platforms
- Data privacy/compliance frameworks
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Relocation support is available
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 15+ years in data or software engineering
- 8+ years leading and scaling engineering organizations
- Experience managing managers
Benefits
- Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams.
About the Company
- 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.
- 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!
Equal Opportunity
- 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.