Summary
Tim Jones is a product design leader with nine years in senior roles who currently directs Product Design for Zynga’s Mobile Game Technology group, building enterprise tools and a global design+frontend team that supports flagship franchises like Words With Friends and Farmville. He blends business-focused UX strategy, research, and hands-on prototyping (Figma, HTML/CSS/JS) to deliver complex workflows across analytics, payments, identity, and game ops systems. Tim led the creation of Zynga’s ZEUS design system and has deep experience drafting GDPR/CCPA compliance, localization pipelines, and accessibility/SEO best practices. A former director of UX in ad tech and early product manager at Yahoo, he pairs storytelling and visual direction with technical documentation and engineering collaboration. He is equally comfortable negotiating vendor agreements and mentoring designers, and often prototypes production-ready UI code to accelerate delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Design Leadership Interaction Design, Design Leadership Interaction Design at Cooper Professional Education
Professional Education - Web Development, Professional Education - Web Development at Georgia Institute of Technology
Graphic Design and Typography Studio, Graphic Design and Typography Studio at UC Berkeley Extension
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature at McGill University
French, English