Senior Producer | Candy Crush Saga

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Job Description:

Do you want to help set the new gold standard for outstanding match-3 games?

Candy Crush Saga is one of the biggest games in the world, entertaining millions of players every day, and we are looking for people who are as excited as we are about making it even bigger and better. Working in a dedicated cross-functional team, you will play a key role in the development and delivery of new and exciting experiences for our players.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Producer to join the Candy Crush team in Stockholm, Barcelona, London or Berlin. The team is working on monetization-driving features and is responsible for the overall health of the economy in Candy Crush Saga. You will bring an excellent track record of leading, motivating and supporting game teams, as well as developing and managing the production schedule to ensure the successful delivery of multiple game projects.

You will collaborate with the creative and business leaders to deliver on project goals in line with King’s high standards. You will be a role model for your team and the company. You’ll foster our values and lead by example with your mindset of collaboration, rapid iteration and continuous improvement.

Your Role Within Our Kingdom

• Lead multidisciplinary game teams to complete product plans, identify and mitigate risks, promote team-wide visibility, and deliver ongoing maintenance activities
• Champion the game vision, goals, and quality expectations in partnership with CCS leads and Product Owners
• Maintain the delivery plan, track progress, and coordinate backlogs to deliver quality features and updates in a predictable and efficient timeline
• Resource roadmaps and find opportunities for short-term and long-term efficiency improvements
• Handle and support other producers in their career development, and foster a positive and creative culture within the team
• Collaborate with other producers to improve your craft and ensure the team is healthy, motivated, and impactful
• Provide partners and leads with production overviews and status updates.

Skills to Create Thrills:

• Have contributed to the development, release and/or service operations of at least one mobile game or live mobile digital product
• Experience working with big features / new games development
• Experience in leading multiple teams in aligning to and completing product vision and goals
• Able to work in and foster a team culture of trust and respect, where open feedback, accountability, and courage to fail fast and learn are the norm
• Able to receive feedback openly and adjust leadership style and way of working
• Proven analytical and data-informed decision making
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, solution-oriented attitude
• Passion for games

Tasty Bonus Points:

• Experience in game development crafts such as art, game design, engineering, QA/QC
• Experience working with outsourcing or distributed teams/development
• Experience working in game-as-a-service environment, being able to balance live services as well as game development activities
• Experience with line management and talent development
• Hands on experience with project tracking tools (eg. Jira)

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.