Producer

Role Overview

Join King's New Games Studio and help shape Minecraft Blast, a new puzzle title created in partnership with Mojang Studios. This is a senior, hands-on production role for an individual capable of managing both high-level strategy and granular execution. You will combine production experience with product knowledge to guide the team in making sound decisions while maintaining clarity, quality, and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Take production ownership of the Features (Meta) area, guiding meta features from concept and scoping through implementation, release, and iteration.
• Partner with the Executive Producer and cross-functional leads to translate product goals and designs into clear, achievable plans, priorities, and actionable work.
• Lead the day-to-day production of multiple feature tracks, maintaining visibility across workload, progress, dependencies, risks, and quality.
• Maintain clear, accurate, and actionable production documentation, including Jira task creation and backlog management, ensuring plans, scope, decisions, and ownership remain visible and up to date.
• Ask the right questions to expose ambiguity early, resolve delivery challenges, and bring forward clear recommendations before issues become blockers.
• Build a high-performing and accountable team environment through effective communication, focused decision-making, and continuous improvement.
• Develop strong relationships across teams, contribute production expertise, and constructively challenge the wider team.

Skills to Create Thrills

• Significant game production experience, including leading multidisciplinary teams through the development, release, or live operation of at least one game or digital product.
• Highly organised and proactive problem solver with strong production fundamentals and the ability to manage multiple priorities in an agile environment.
• Strong product judgement and commercial awareness, balancing player value, business goals, and development constraints to support effective decisions.
• Quality-driven with a genuine passion for games and product development and the ability to inspire teams to deliver outstanding player experiences.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to expose ambiguity, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and form clear recommendations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to build trusted relationships, promote open feedback, ownership, and accountability, and adapt leadership style to the needs of the team.

Bonus Points

• Experience developing and operating mobile free-to-play games, particularly casual or puzzle titles, including live events, features, or social systems.
• Experience working with external IP partners.
• Experience in recruitment, mentoring, or broader team and talent development.
• Knowledge of the Minecraft IP.

Company Culture and Context

• Mission: Making the World Playful; bringing moments of magic to everyday life.
• Environment: King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, blending intuition with analysis, art with science, and imagination with execution.
• Diversity: The company believes in nurturing diversity in its people to foster originality in its games.
• Structure: King is part of Microsoft and operates as an independent unit.
• Locations: Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.

Additional Information

• Applications should be made in English.
• Relocation packages are available.