Associate Producer | Minecraft Blast, New Games

King; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading interactive entertainment company in Greater London is seeking an Associate Producer to support the development of an exciting new puzzle game. You will be responsible for managing the project backlog, facilitating team operations, and ensuring smooth communication across disciplines. The ideal candidate has production experience in game development, strong organizational skills, and proficiency in JIRA. This role offers a growth path for those aspiring to higher production levels, along with an opportunity to contribute to a globally recognized brand.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Production role in game development.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage shifting priorities and multiple workstreams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and execution across the project roadmap.
• Manage and maintain the JIRA backlog and boards.
• Track progress of deliverables and surface risks early.

Skills

Production experience in game development

Strong organisational skills

Agile development familiarity

Excellent communication skills

Proactive problem-solving mindset

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

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 @king_games on X.