Associate Production Director – Minecraft Core

Mojang Studios; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mojang Studios in Stockholm is seeking an Associate Production Director to lead creative production across Minecraft Core Marketing. This senior role requires turning ambitious ideas into scalable, on-time delivery while maintaining brand quality.

You will lead Producers, build production systems, manage budgets and collaborate with Creative and Marketing leaders to balance creative ambition with operational reality in a fast-moving, global environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience producing end-to-end global marketing and live service campaigns.
• Proven ability to lead large multi-stream portfolios from concept to delivery.
• Experience building and coaching Producers or project managers.
• Deep budgeting, forecasting, resourcing, and capacity planning expertise.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end creative production and localization.
• Strategic and hands-on leader, capable of scalable systems.
• Senior stakeholder management and influencing skills in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for production strategy, roadmap planning, intake, and prioritization across global campaigns, content, live-service marketing, social and partner initiatives.
• End-to-end delivery of portfolios on time, on budget, with high creative quality and brand standards.
• Lead, coach, and develop Producers, with hiring and onboarding and clear accountability.
• Drive alignment with internal and external partners on goals, scope, timelines, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Manage production budgets, forecasting, allocation, and reconciliation with capacity planning.
• Oversee agency/vendor strategy, selection, scoping, and performance management to optimize cost and quality.
• Establish scalable production workflows, governance, and asset management standards across channels.
• Improve forecasting and delivery via data, portfolio insights, automation, and AI; build reusable models.

Skills

Production leadership

Budgeting

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Data-informed approach

Job description

Associate Production Director – Minecraft Core

Stockholm

Mojang Studios is best known as the creators of Minecraft, butwe’realsoonamission–tobuild a better world through the power of play.

Why play? Well,play is at the heart of everything we do. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even the origin of our name. From the relentless experimentation of our endlessly inspiring community to the classrooms where Minecraft has become an essential teaching tool, play is the bedrock of our existence.

About the Role

Minecraft is more than a game.It’sa global platform for creativity, connection, and play, supported by a constant flow of updates, campaigns, content, experiences, and partnerships that reach millions of players around the world.

We’re looking for an Associate Production Director to lead creative production across Minecraft Core Marketing. This is a senior production leadership role for someone who can bring big creative ideas to life through strong production leadership and execution. You’ll lead Producers, connect priorities across teams and build the plans, capacity, investment and production systems needed to deliver great creative work at scale.

As a strategic partner to Creative and Marketing leadership,you’llbring clarity to ambiguity, balance creative ambition with operational reality, and turn business priorities into results.

KeyResponsibilities

• Accountable forproduction strategy, roadmap planning, intake, and prioritization across global campaigns, content, live-service marketing, social and partner initiatives.
• Accountable for end-to-end portfolio delivery, on time, on budget and at the expected creative quality and brand standards. Partner with Creative Leadership to translate ambitious ideas intofeasible, effective execution.
• Lead, coach, and develop Producers, supporting hiring and onboarding whileestablishingclear roles, expectations, decision-makingresponsibilitiesand accountability.
• Drive alignment across internal stakeholders and external partners on goals, scope, timelines,dependenciesand trade-offs. Represent production in leadership forums, communicating delivery status,risksand mitigation plans.
• Accountable for production budgets, including forecasting, allocation, and reconciliation.Partner with Production Director and Operations on capacity and resource planning aligned to business priorities and constraints.
• Accountable for agency and vendor strategy, including partner selection,scopingand performance management,optimizingcost, speed,qualityand scale.
• Establish scalable production systems,workflowsand governance, including standards for briefing, approvals, asset management, localization, and distribution across channels.
• Drive continuous improvement using data, portfolio insights, capacity signals, automation, and AI to strengthen forecasting, prioritization, efficiency, and delivery predictability.Buildresuableproduction models that supportMinecraft’sevolving live-service rhythm.

WhatYou'llNeedtoSucceed

• 10+ yearsexperience inproducing end-to-end global marketing and live service campaigns,witha track recordof leading large-scale, multi-stream portfolios from concept through delivery.
• Experience leading and developing Producers or project managers and building collaborative, high-performing teams.
• Deepexpertisein budgeting, forecasting, resourcing, capacity planning, and agency/vendor management.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end creative production, including campaign development, asset production, approvals,localisationand distribution.
• Ability tooperatestrategically and hands-on, scaling production systems while engaging in the detail needed to deliver.
• Strong leadership presence, senior stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with sound judgement in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• A collaborative, data-informedapproachand curiosity about how technology, automation, and AI can improve creative production.

Bonus

• Significant experienceproducing end-to-end,complexmarketingand live servicescampaignsforAAA gamelaunches,updatesand initiatives.
• Experiencebuildingscalableproductionframeworks,portfolio planningpractices, orcreativeoperationsfunctionsin globalorganizations.
• Experienceleveragingautomation, AI tools, or data-informed planning approaches to improve team effectiveness.

WhatYouNeedtoKnow

We’relookingforcandidateswhoareeligibletoworkin Sweden.Sinceourhybridworkmodelrequiresthreeonsitedaysperweek,you’llneedto bebasedin Stockholm tocollaboratewithyourteam andsoakupthe studioenergy.

MojangStudiosis a Microsoft-ownedgamedeveloper. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and has offices around the world, including Stockholm, Redmond, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai.We’realways working on new and excitingwaysto expandtheMinecraftuniverse.

Our community is global and incredibly diverse. We keep this in mind when developing anything, as we want people to feel included in Minecraft. And in recruiting, our goal is to make Mojang Studios as diverse as our community.

We got started as a tiny indie developer, and part of our culture still reflects that heritage. But we’re also proud to belong to Xbox Game Studios, which creates unique opportunities to grow and develop.

To help us achieve amazing things, we have built an equally amazing studio space. Situated right on the water by SöderMälarstrand, it’s filled to the brim with all the tools, toys and caffeine required to create world-class entertainment.

But in the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!

Important note on resumes
Please make sure thatallthe information in your resume is accurate because we will conduct a thorough background check. Any discrepancies will lower your chances of getting to the next interview stage and we’d hate to miss out on an awesome candidate! Double check that any gap years are reflected in your history, and that your education and work experience are completely accurate. Good luck!