Associate Producer | Minecraft Blast, New Games
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Job Summary
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Games Design & ProductionJob 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 worlds 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 by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Mac Os
- Video Editing
- Content Management Systems
- Perforce
- Host/Hostess Experience
- Trello
- Jira
- Journalism
- Post Production
- Adobe Premiere
- Confluence
- Writing Skills
About Company
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