Associate Creative Operations Director

Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

As the Associate Creative Operations Director for Soda, you will play a pivotal role in steering our creative processes towards excellence. You are the architect of operational efficiency, a strategic visionary who ensures that our creative output is not only groundbreaking but also delivered within the bounds of budget and time. Your leadership will bridge the gap between creativity and business acumen, driving the team to achieve and surpass our ambitious goals.

Your role within the Kingdom

Key Responsibilities

• Budget Oversight: Help ensure financial health and resource allocation align with project and organizational objectives.
• Strategic Planning: Help develop and communicate Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to drive success in game development, market penetration, and revenue growth.
• Team Coordination: Organize offsite meetings and activities that foster team cohesion, creativity, and strategic alignment. Ensure these gatherings are productive, goal-oriented, and reflective of our company culture.
• Communication: Serve as a communication linchpin, ensuring clear, concise, and effective communication within the team and across departments. Facilitate a transparent information flow to and from stakeholders.
• Production Transparency: Improve and maintain the centralized product roadmap for creative, providing insightful updates on project status, budget utilization, and strategic outcomes. Translate complex creative processes into comprehensible, actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Continuously analyze and refine creative processes, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to enhance efficiency, quality, and team satisfaction.
• Collaboration: Foster and develop strong relationships with codevelopment partners, product areas, central services, and other stakeholders across the Kingdom and beyond

Skills to create thrills

Experience

• Demonstrated experience driving strategic initiatives in complex organizations
• Demonstrated experience in driving best practices in OKRs, budget management, and process improvement
• Previous experience with working with creative designers and artists is a bonus

Knowledge & Skills

• Stellar communication skills
• Strong understanding of project management and operational methodologies
• Change management and team coordination

Key Attributes

• Fast and agile learner adaptable to change
• Highly organized, with the ability to synthesize feedback and input from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Strong collaborator, with the ability to develop strong relationships and bring groups together
• Passion for our company mission of Making the World Playful

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.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com