Helping Mark Pincus Focus On The Technology, Zynga’s Chief People Officer Colleen McCreary Is Essential!
Corporate executives of major companies have a lot on their plates; that is the nature of the position. Because of the burdens of the industry, technology companies have additional stresses and responsibilities that add to the CEO’s responsibilities. As a result, the very best CEOs in the technology sector tend to hire a close cadre of people whom they can trust absolutely. The CEO relies upon these close corporate officers to oversee the minutiae while they focus on the big picture for a company. Usually, one of the key hires to make a tech sector CEO successful is the hiring of a head of human resources. Mark Pincus of Zynga certainly qualifies as successful and part of his success comes from his reliance upon Colleen McCreary.
Colleen McCreary is the Chief People Officer of Zynga. In that role, McCreary frees up CEO Mark Pincus to worry about things other than the staff of Zynga. As Chief People Officer, Colleen McCreary is the woman to see about applying for jobs and all other human resource issues at Zynga. McCreary has been with Zynga since 2009 and helped the company staff up as the Facebook games Zynga produces became more popular.
Mark Pincus hired Colleen McCreary for the Chief People Officer position after he was impressed with her work at Electronic Arts. At that software company, McCreary pioneered a diversity program and a program that established human resource ties with important universities so EA could recruit the best and brightest programmers right out of college. Prior to working for Electronic Arts, McCreary worked for Microsoft. With her B.A. in Mass Communication and Public Relations from Boston University and a Master’s Degree in Higher Education Administration from Columbia University, Colleen McCreary knows a lot about how people work, think, and communicate. Those skills make her ideal for a Chief People Officer.
What also makes Colleen McCreary an ideal Chief People Officer, specifically for Zynga, is her corporate philosophy. McCreary is a strong believer in the Zynga idea of “be your own CEO.” To her, that means finding staff for Zynga who will own the decisions they make. Because McCreary and Zynga value personnel who are able to work autonomously, McCreary wants the staff to take responsibility for their decisions, good and bad, much like a CEO is forced to do constantly. McCreary’s hiring philosophy is not limited to such dour ideals, though. As the gatekeeper for the staff at Zynga, McCreary looks for people who are fun and interested in making fun games. One of her guiding principles is to hire people who want to make computer games that they are eager to share with likeminded friends. By hiring people with that fun outlook on gaming, Colleen McCreary has helped to build Zynga into a powerful software company!
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