Associate Producer | Minecraft Blast, New Games

We are seeking a highly organized and collaborative Associate Producer or Producer to join King New Games, focusing on Minecraft Blast. This role involves supporting the Executive Producer and cross-disciplinary teams to ensure smooth development across project phases. Responsibilities include managing the JIRA backlog, task scoping, risk identification, and facilitating team communication. The position offers growth for an Associate Producer aiming for a Producer role, while also welcoming experienced candidates.

Must Have

• Experience in a Production role in game development
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage shifting priorities and multiple workstreams
• Experience with agile development and familiarity with JIRA or other task management tools
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
• Ability to gather information and translate it into clear plans, tasks, or estimates
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a focus on clarity and removing ambiguity

Good to Have

• Experience with mobile Free-to-Play development, particularly puzzle or casual games
• Experience working with licensed IP or external stakeholders
• Familiarity with distributed teams and multi-office collaboration
• Understanding of analytics, KPIs, and common F2P feature patterns

Associate Producer | Minecraft Blast, New Games

Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

Your Role Within Our Kingdom

We are looking for a highly organised and collaborative Associate Producer or Producer to join King New Games and support the ongoing development of Minecraft Blast, our new puzzle title created in partnership with Mojang Studios.

You will work closely with the Executive Producer, Craft Leads, and the wider cross-disciplinary team to keep development flowing smoothly across multiple phases of the project roadmap. You will help ensure the team has clarity on upcoming work, support task scoping and estimation, and maintain healthy production processes that enable high-quality delivery.

This role offers a strong growth path for an Associate Producer aiming to develop into a Producer role, while also being open to more experienced candidates ready to operate at Producer level.

Responsibilities

Production & Delivery

• Support planning and execution across evolving roadmap phases, enabling the team to deliver high-quality features and content.
• Manage and maintain the JIRA backlog and boards, ensuring work is clearly articulated, prioritised, and prepared for upcoming sprints.
• Partner with Craft Leads and team members to identify, define, and break down tasks, gathering input to create clear scopes with realistic estimates.
• Drive sprint hygiene by preparing backlog items, reviewing dependencies, and ensuring upcoming sprints have appropriate ready-to-start work.
• Track progress of deliverables and surface risks early, supporting the team in developing mitigation plans.

Team Operations & Collaboration

• Work closely with the Executive Producer and Craft Leads to maintain alignment on goals, priorities, and development flow.
• Facilitate cross-disciplinary communication, ensuring the right people are connected at the right time.
• Support day-to-day team operations: stand-ups, ceremonies, reviews, playtests, and key development discussions.
• Help keep Confluence and workflow documentation organised and current for ease of onboarding and team clarity.

Quality, Testing & Workflow Excellence

• Collaborate with QA to support testing cycles, bug triage, and readiness for internal builds.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of team ways of working as the project evolves through multiple development phases.

Skills to Create Thrills

Essential

• Experience in a Production role in game development.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage shifting priorities and multiple workstreams.
• Experience with agile development and familiarity with JIRA or other task management tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
• Ability to gather information and translate it into clear plans, tasks, or estimates.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a focus on clarity and removing ambiguity.

Bonus Points

• Experience with mobile Free-to-Play development, particularly puzzle or casual games.
• Experience working with licensed IP or external stakeholders.
• Familiarity with distributed teams and multi-office collaboration.
• Understanding of analytics, KPIs, and common F2P feature patterns.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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