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# Lead UI/UX Designer - Unannounced Project at Zynga 

- **Company:** Zynga 
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zyngacareers/jobs/6115287004

## Job description

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

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. 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!

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!

Who We Are:

At NaturalMotion, we make games that wow people. We innovate to create previously impossible experiences that would not exist without us. We take pride in making titles that reach a large audience and creating communities that last. Our commitment to excellence has earned us recognition as one of the UK's Best Places to Work in games for eight consecutive years by gamesindustry.biz, and we're proud to be part of the Zynga and Take-Two Interactive family.

Position Overview:

NaturalMotion Games are looking for a talented and visionary Lead UI/UX Designer to help shape the player experience for an exciting, unannounced mobile title. This role focuses on steering the end-to-end UX and UI vision, managing a talented design team, and overseeing the entire creative process from early conceptual wireframes to final technical implementation in Unreal Engine.

You will own the interface and user flows for our current unannounced project, and future titles, coordinating closely with the Art Director, Design Director, and Product Managers to ensure our UI is visually stunning, accessible, and perfectly aligned with core gameplay pillars. As a live-service game, you will champion futureproof, highly scalable UX design systems and leverage player data and frequent testing to constantly iterate and elevate the user experience during live operations.

We are looking for an experienced leader with shipped titles under their belt, a deep mastery of mobile live-ops methodologies, and a genuine passion for mentoring internal and external talent to build a versatile, world-class design team.

We embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role you will work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

What You'll Do:

UX Vision

- Lead UX vision for Hacienda and future projects within the studio. Including creating and giving feedback on wireframes, prototypes and design briefs as well as presenting the UX vision to the team and external stakeholders.
- Oversee the design process from concept to implementation, ensuring high standards of quality both in early wireframe and technical implementation in Unreal Engine.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to create cohesive and user-friendly designs.
- Utilize data and frequent testing to confirm the effectiveness of UX flows and continue to find areas of improvement throughout development and live operations.
- Develop and maintain design guidelines, standards, and best practices for the team to follow.
- Stay updated with industry trends and incorporate new design techniques and tools.
- Has strong leadership, creativity, and a deep understanding of user experience and interface design principles.

UI Vision

- Work alongside the Art Director to ensure UI art style is appealing, accessible and matches the overall Art style of the game.
- Accountable for executing the UI style at quality across all platforms.
- Support Marketing and rendering in presentation.

Design Expertise

- Collaborate with Design Director to ensure UX aligns with Design pillars and vision.
- Guide development of features and systems using deep UX/UI knowledge.
- Ensure design cohesion and best practices across the team, and communicate them via documentation, presentations, feature reviews and mentoring.
- Ensure efficient, futureproof systems that are built on component re-use rather than bespoke assets and screens.
- Review and provide feedback on UX systems, features, and UI art and provide guidance to other leaders and designers.

Management

- Lead and manage a team of UI/UX designers both internal and external, providing guidance and mentorship.
- Ensure team members are on track on their career path, including mentoring, regular one to one’s and creating development plans.
- Impart your experience and methods to the team, and leverage their own strengths and backgrounds to build a versatile team capable of tackling any challenge.

What You'll Bring:

- An experienced UX Lead/Manager/Director with shipped titles under your belt.
- Experience in Mobile development, in particular supporting live-operations, rapid iteration, and agile development.
- Experience of live-service design methodologies and building a living game for a large community of players.
- Deeply familiarity with what it takes to develop and ship a live-service title on time and at quality.
- Mastery of design systems, workflows, and process.
- Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.

What We Offer You:

- Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus scheme
- 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays & 2 paid personal days
- 6 months fully paid maternity/adoption leave and 16 weeks fully paid paternity leave (eligibility criteria applies)
- Pension plan, with a double matching employer contribution
- Private medical & dental insurance and healthcare cash plan
- Life insurance, personal accident insurance and income protection
- Mental health and neurodiversity support programs
- Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan (eligibility criteria applies)
- Fitness reimbursement plan, worth £600 per annum
- Flexible working hours
- Weekly happy hours, seasonal parties and monthly social events
- Annual rail season ticket advance and cycle to work scheme

#LI-Hybrid

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, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).

## About Zynga 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zynga is a global leader in mobile interactive entertainment, connecting the world through games, and operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- **Entity Type**: Public subsidiary (parent: Take-Two Interactive, NASDAQ: TTWO)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, USA (with offices in Austin, Chicago, Toronto, London, Barcelona, Istanbul, Bengaluru, Helsinki, and more)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Mark Pincus (named after his dog Zinga)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Mobile gaming / Interactive entertainment
- **Target customers**: B2C – mass market mobile players in 175+ countries
- **Mission**: To connect the world through games

## Products & Services
Major game franchises (all mobile, free-to-play with in-app purchases):
- **Words With Friends™**: Social word puzzle game (over 70 million words played daily)
- **Zynga Poker™**: Largest free mobile poker game
- **Toon Blast™** & **Toy Blast™**: Puzzle games (acquired via Peak Games)
- **Merge Dragons!™**: Merge puzzle game (acquired via Gram Games)
- **Empires & Puzzles™**: Match-3 RPG (acquired via Small Giant Games)
- **CSR2™ / CSR Racing™**: Racing simulation
- **Game of Thrones Slots Casino™**, **Hit it Rich! Slots™**, **Wizard of Oz Slots™**: Social casino games
- **Golf Rival™**: Sports game (acquired via StarLark)
- **Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™**: Licensed puzzle game
- **Color Block Jam™**, **Match Factory!™**: Casual puzzle games
- **Rollic** (hyper-casual games) and **Chartboost** (mobile monetization platform) also part of the portfolio

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive; Take-Two market cap ~$28B as of early 2025)
- **Key Metric**: 183 million monthly active users (MAU) playing mobile games [zynga.com](https://www.zynga.com/about/our-story/); over 10 billion total mobile downloads [zynga.com](https://www.zynga.com/) (some pages cite 6 billion)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Early backers included Union Square Ventures and Foundry Group; acquired by Take-Two Interactive in May 2022 for $12.7 billion (all-stock)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid studio acquisitions (Gram Games, Small Giant, Peak, Rollic, Chartboost, StarLark) between 2018–2021; continued live operations growth; expansion into hyper-casual and ad monetization via Chartboost

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data-driven live operations**: Pioneered big data and analytics in mobile gaming to optimize player engagement and monetization
- **Diverse forever franchises**: Portfolio spans puzzle, social casino, word, racing, and RPG genres, reducing reliance on any single hit
- **Scale and distribution**: Massive global footprint (175+ countries) and billions of installs provide strong network effects
- **Parent company backing**: Access to Take-Two’s resources, IP (e.g., *Game of Thrones*, *Harry Potter*), and publishing expertise

## Strategic Focus
- **Forever franchises**: Doubling down on long-lived mobile titles with continuous content updates and live events
- **Mobile-first growth**: Continuing to expand mobile portfolio through organic development and targeted acquisitions
- **Monetization & ad tech**: Leveraging Chartboost to enhance in-game advertising and cross-promotion
- **Licensed IP**: Developing games based on major entertainment properties (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasis on “connecting the world through games”; strong employee resource groups (Women at Zynga, zPride, NaZ for neurodiversity, zCares, ZAPI, zParents, zEndurance)
- **Work model**: “Connected Workplace” – hybrid (Connected), full-time onsite, or fully remote roles depending on team and function
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, performance bonuses, equity participation, medical/dental/vision, generous parental leave, flexible time-off (DTO), wellness programs, gym benefits, shuttle/commuter perks, in-house food and snacks
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers work on some of the world’s largest game infrastructures; data scientists and analytics drive game decisions; strong focus on innovation and rapid iteration
- **Global locations**: Studios in North America, Europe, and Asia – opportunity to work in diverse international teams

## Sources
1. [zynga.com](https://www.zynga.com/) – Official company homepage
2. [zynga.com/about/our-story/](https://www.zynga.com/about/our-story/) – Company history and milestones
3. [zynga.com/jobs/careers/](https://www.zynga.com/jobs/careers/) – Careers page with benefits and culture details
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/zyngacareers](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zyngacareers) – Current job listings
5. [linkedin.com/company/zynga](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zynga) – LinkedIn company page

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