Zyngacareers
Production Intern
London, UK. Posted 23 days ago
The role
You will work with producers on all parts of production for a game, from concept through managing live games. You will help plan and run work so the team delivers a high-quality game on time and on budget.
What you will do
- Plan and execute team work with design, product management, feature teams, leadership and partner teams
- Set backlog priorities with stakeholders and the team, and build team ownership of goals
- Facilitate clear written, verbal and visual communication between disciplines and teams
- Report progress, status, risks and quantitative production delivery metrics
- Keep everyone in sync with plans and updates as they happen
- Ensure high-quality releases with QA, Development, Design, Art, Product and other teams
- Create and improve team processes with input from the team and senior leadership
Required qualifications
- Recent graduate: completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the past 12 months
- Degree in Game Development, Game Production, Game Technology, Computer Science, Business, Information Technology or a related field
- Ability to bring order out of uncertainty, with strong prioritization and decision-making
- Influential in in-person and written communication
- Effective in one-to-one and one-to-many communication
- Effective team collaborator and meeting facilitator
- Experience with development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with project status and risk reporting
- Basic understanding of planning tools such as Atlassian Jira, Airtable, Smartsheet or AI tools
- A real passion for games
- Ability to work hybrid from the Gram Games London office at least two days a week
Benefits
- Paid internship with a competitive salary
- Private medical and dental care
- Onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch and snacks
- Life insurance and the right to opt into the pension scheme
- Access to digital health care services
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
- Tech and consoles to use onsite
Before you apply
- Apply with your CV, cover letter and a portfolio or showcase of your work, such as game jam projects, personal builds or team case studies
- The cover letter should answer why you want an internship with Gram Games and why you chose this specific internship
- Zynga does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps
About the company
Zynga is an interactive entertainment company and a label of Take-Two Interactive, with games downloaded over 6 billion times. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, its teams span North America, Europe and Asia.