Jobs at King

Lead a distributed engineering and QA team building Candy Crush Saga’s challenge and economy systems. Hire, coach, and develop engineers; participate in technical discussions and team rituals; own delivery quality, predictability, and pace; partner with Product and Production on roadmaps and priorities; represent Engineering in leadership forums; manage cross-team risks and dependencies; and guide responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering.

Design and analyze A/B tests, conduct data exploration, build predictive models, and uncover player and business insights. Create visualizations and presentations for diverse stakeholders, ensure data quality and accessibility, and improve data science methodologies and tooling. Collaborate with game designers, developers, and analytics teams across the game portfolio to translate abstract product questions into actionable analyses and support data-driven feature development.

Own the economy and systemic design for an unannounced Merge 2 mobile game. Design and balance merge chains, currencies, progression, energy loops, rewards, events, monetization, and long-term engagement systems. Build models and simulations, use data and experimentation to tune player journeys, lead economy reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor designers. The role requires proven merge-game economy experience, strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, and the ability to guide development and live operations.

Develops performant visual experiences for an unannounced game project using Unity. Builds shaders, materials, VFX, lighting, and visual systems; improves pipelines, tooling, workflows, and content integration; collaborates with artists, designers, engineers, and production; establishes performance-aware best practices; and mentors teammates on technical art workflows.

Build and maintain dashboards and internal web tools using React and Cube.js; design innovative, accurate data visualizations; collaborate on code quality and architecture; translate complex data into clear, usable visualizations.

Design, build, and operate Python backend services, data processing pipelines, and internal web applications. Integrate platforms with Microsoft ecosystem, deploy containerized cloud-native apps, improve reliability and observability, support CI/CD, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven forecasting and analytics solutions.

Design and analyze A/B tests, conduct data exploration, build predictive models, create visualizations, and deliver actionable insights for game development. The role partners with designers, developers, and data scientists to improve player experiences, ensure data quality, advance data science methodologies, and guide strategic decisions across Catalog Games.

Design and evolve the core puzzle gameplay for a new casual mobile game, including mechanics, blockers, interaction systems, difficulty progression, and player feedback. Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, product managers, and data scientists to prototype features, analyze player behavior, connect gameplay to progression and economy systems, document designs, manage risks, and deliver engaging experiences across thousands of levels. Contribute to design quality and mentor fellow designers.

Leads UX research and design for King’s continuous integration ecosystem. The role investigates developer workflows, identifies pain points and desired outcomes, maps end-to-end journeys, and designs and evaluates simpler CI experiences with engineers and game teams. Responsibilities include facilitating workshops, influencing technical direction, communicating complex systems, and establishing sustainable user-learning practices. The position is a six-month fixed-term maternity cover focused on developer tools, internal platforms, and large-scale platform transformation.

Design and produce polished, readable UI assets for a mobile game, including icons, buttons, panels, badges, HUDs, menus, events, and live features. Translate wireframes, UX flows, and art direction into production-ready visuals, prepare optimized assets for Unity, maintain consistency across screens, and collaborate with designers, developers, artists, and art direction. Contribute to style guides, templates, usability improvements, and cross-disciplinary game features.

Lead the artistic vision for new casual mobile games while creating 2D, 3D, and AI-assisted assets hands-on. Collaborate with creative, design, development, production, and marketing teams to prototype, test, and refine visuals based on player feedback. Mentor multidisciplinary art teams, provide artistic direction, guide external partners, and ensure art is implemented effectively in playable builds. The role is fully on-site in Stockholm.

Supports the London office’s audiovisual environment by maintaining and troubleshooting AV hardware and software, coordinating event resources and controls, managing equipment inventory, documenting AV systems, supporting video conferences and leadership events, coordinating service providers, and collaborating with network and IT teams on local and global AV projects.

Create and implement stylized 2D and 3D art for a new mobile game, taking assets from concept through modeling, texturing, optimization, and Unity integration. Maintain visual consistency, readability, and polish while collaborating with art direction, design, technical art, and engineering. Provide feedback and mentorship to artists, improve workflows, and troubleshoot in-engine asset issues within mobile performance constraints.

Create polished, production-ready UI assets for a stylized mobile game, including icons, buttons, panels, HUDs, menus, events, and illustrative elements. Translate wireframes, UX flows, and art direction into consistent visuals, prepare optimized assets for Unity, review in-game implementation, and collaborate with design, art, UX, technology, animation, VFX, and 2D/3D teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations used across multiple King games. Own features from design through production support, improve system reliability, observability, and automation, collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to architecture and code quality, and explore integrating AI capabilities into player support tools.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of scalable decision automation and production ML systems for Candy Crush Saga. Build reusable decisioning foundations, improve experimentation and causal inference tooling, mentor senior engineers, and ensure reliability, observability, and cross-team alignment for player-facing personalization and adaptation at scale.

Design, own, and iterate metagame features (progression, competitive events, social loops) end-to-end for Candy Crush Saga. Partner with product, UX, engineering, data, and live ops to prototype, balance, tune with player data, and optimize retention, monetization, and player engagement. Mentor designers and contribute strategic direction for F2P metagame systems.

Develop, enhance, administer, and support Oracle EPM Planning Cloud applications for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Responsibilities include Groovy and Essbase scripting, data integration, metadata administration, reporting, security management, patch testing, automation monitoring, incident resolution, Oracle Service Requests, finance stakeholder collaboration, training, and documentation.

Design and own high-impact player experiences across onboarding, progression, rewards and long-term engagement. Lead cross-team discovery, create design documentation and player journey maps, and use qualitative and quantitative insights to identify friction, validate ideas, and drive cohesive systems that maximize player value and delight.

Analyze player behavior, game difficulty, progression, and economy KPIs for Candy Crush Saga. Build dashboards, conduct A/B tests, investigate product questions, define tracking specifications, and translate data into actionable recommendations for product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists.