Mojang Studios is best known as the creators of Minecraft, but we’re also on a mission – to build 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’s a 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’ll bring clarity to ambiguity, balance creative ambition with operational reality, and turn business priorities into results.
Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for production 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 into feasible, effective execution.
- Lead, coach, and develop Producers, supporting hiring and onboarding while establishing clear roles, expectations, decision-making responsibilities and accountability.
- Drive alignment across internal stakeholders and external partners on goals, scope, timelines, dependencies and trade-offs. Represent production in leadership forums, communicating delivery status, risks and 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, scoping and performance management, optimizing cost, speed, quality and scale.
- Establish scalable production systems, workflows and 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. Build resuable production models that support Minecraft’s evolving live-service rhythm.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 10+ years experience in producing end-to-end global marketing and live service campaigns, with a track record of leading large-scale, multi-stream portfolios from concept through delivery.
- Experience leading and developing Producers or project managers and building collaborative, high-performing teams.
- Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, resourcing, capacity planning, and agency/vendor management.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end creative production, including campaign development, asset production, approvals, localisation and distribution.
- Ability to operate strategically 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-informed approach and curiosity about how technology, automation, and AI can improve creative production.
Bonus
- Significant experience producing end-to-end, complex marketing and live services campaigns for AAA game launches, updates and initiatives.
- Experience building scalable production frameworks, portfolio planning practices, or creative operations functions in global organizations.
- Experience leveraging automation, AI tools, or data-informed planning approaches to improve team effectiveness.
What You Need to Know
We’re looking for candidates who are eligible to work in Sweden. Since our hybrid work model requires three onsite days per week, you’ll need to be based in Stockholm to collaborate with your team and soak up the studio energy.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game developer. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and has offices around the world, including Stockholm, Redmond, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. We’re always working on new and exciting ways to expand the Minecraft universe.
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 Söder Mälarstrand, 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 that all the 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!
Skills Required
- 10+ years producing end-to-end global marketing and live-service campaigns
- Track record leading large-scale, multi-stream portfolios from concept through delivery
- Experience leading and developing Producers or project managers
- Experience building collaborative, high-performing teams
- Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, resourcing, capacity planning, and agency/vendor management
- Strong understanding of end-to-end creative production, including campaign development, asset production, approvals, localization, and distribution
- Ability to operate strategically and hands-on while scaling production systems
- Strong leadership presence, senior stakeholder management, and influencing skills
- Sound judgment in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Collaborative, data-informed approach
- Curiosity about using technology, automation, and AI to improve creative production
- Experience producing complex marketing and live-service campaigns for AAA game launches, updates, and initiatives
- Experience building scalable production frameworks, portfolio planning practices, or creative operations functions in global organizations
- Experience leveraging automation, AI tools, or data-informed planning approaches to improve team effectiveness
- Eligible to work in Sweden
- Based in Stockholm for a hybrid schedule requiring three onsite days per week
What We Do
Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game studio based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Redmond (WA) with additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Tokyo as well as a partially remote workforce. We created Minecraft, the sandbox video game turned franchise that now includes two more games, novels, board games, apparel, and much more. We believe in the power of play and our mission is to build a better world through our work. At our studios, you’ll meet passionate and welcoming people with the same goal: to create games and products with a positive impact. Four core values guide everything we do: Fuel Passion. Minecraft encourages players to stay sharp and constantly evolve. We mirror that by bringing together enthusiastic people who are eager to innovate in their fields and giving them the resources to reach their goals. We’re passionate about our industry and strive to empower our employees and future generations of gaming professionals. Create Fun. We aim to create fun, enriching experiences for our players, whether they’re playing our games, learning in Minecraft Education, or discovering a new product. Thanks to our incredibly talented creator community and Minecraft Marketplace, the fun is virtually endless and there’s something for everyone in our blocky universe. Celebrate Creativity. Creativity is at the core of Minecraft, whether you’re making art in Creative mode or finding clever ways to get through the night in Survival mode. Fresh ideas, out-of-the-box thinking, and new perspectives are what allows us to evolve the franchise and keep surprising our players after more than a decade of Minecraft. Craft together. Minecraft welcomes everyone because we believe that we’re better together. Our players’ feedback and the work of our community creators have made Minecraft what it is today. To support collaboration in our studios, we’ve built comfy, connected spaces that allow our local and remote teams to work closely together.
