Production Lead (Senior Producer), Bubble Witch 3

Your Role within our Kingdom
Do you want to work on a fun mobile game which entertains millions of players every single day around the world? Working in a talented team alongside developers, designers, artists and other passionate producers, you’ll see your work go live in the app store and will likely see your game played by the person sat next to you on your commute home.
We’re currently looking for a talented Senior Producer to join our Portfolio Games organisation in Malmö as Production Lead, Bubble Witch 3. You will bring an excellent track record of leading, motivating and supporting cross -functional game teams, managing the production schedule to ensure the successful delivery of multiple game projects.
You will collaborate with the Head of Game and the Bubble Witch 3 leads team 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 champion our values and help us to apply Agile practices and principles to our game development.


Key Responsibilities
• Work with the Bubble Witch 3 leads team to understand and support game vision and performance goals, quality expectations, and game backlog.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure full understanding of production requirements and constraints, in order to support the team to deliver the right quality experience in an efficient timeline.
• Create and maintain the production plan in partnership with the team and leads, then work with the team to execute on it.
• Align the team around clear and motivating goals that is connected to the game strategy and lead and support them to deliver quality features and content.
• Track progress throughout production to learn and adjust in order to successfully deliver on expectations.
• Provide production overview and status to stakeholders and leads.
• Co-ordinate and align backlogs with Product Owners and manage production dependencies.
• Lead the game team to proactively identify and mitigate known and emerging problems and risks and promote team-wide visibility.
• Support communication and coordination with external groups such as tech platforms and tools, localization, marketing, etc.
• Drive and co-ordinate the team to deliver ongoing maintenance activities (ex: bug
fixing, ad hoc requests, releases).
• Establish clearly defined and efficient working processes together with the team and continuously work to improve the processes. • Identify and plan for opportunities for long-term efficiency improvements.
• Identify and engage collaborators, both internal and external to the BW3S team, at the right times throughout production.
• Set up and adjust Pod/team structure in alignment with leads team and game team.
• Plan and support teams in work assignment.
• Together with leads team identify and resolve staffing needs.
• Encourage and support a positive, creative, feedback-focused culture in your teams and help identify and resolve morale or engagement issues.
• Provide support and input towards individuals’ performance and growth.
• Collaborate with other Production Leads on the improvement of your craft.
• Have contributed to the development, release and/or service operations of at least one game or live digital product.
• Experience in leading teams in aligning to and executing against product vision and goals. • Working within a positive team culture of open feedback, and an environment that boosts engagement, ownership, and accountability.
• Able to receive feedback openly and adjust leadership style and way of working.
• Demonstrated analytical and data-informed decision making.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• 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.
Skills to Create Thrills
A Great Saga needs all sorts of Heroes…
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent – because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.