Associate Operations Director Candy Crush Saga

hace 2 meses


Barcelona, España King A tiempo completo

**Craft**:
Data, Analytics & Strategy

**Your Role within our Kingdom**:
Reporting directly to the VP of Saga, you will be a trusted partner and force
- multiplier, helping the VP and other leaders in the Area, to maximise leadership and team effectiveness and leverage the best of our partners across King. You will provide advice on high priority topics (both strategic & operational) and lead special projects within the area and in partnership with other key teams. Where needed, you will act as an extension of the VP when they are unavailable.

**Key Responsibilities include**:
Operations:

- Support the VP with operational topics (headcount, budget, people, team engagement, roadmap communication) and help other Directors reach agreements on cross
- area topics.
- Lead operational initiatives, such as determining organisational setup, planning and executing of offsites, OKR setting, as well as driving annual and quarterly strategy work.
- Ensure operational processes and tooling are scalable and easily repeatable
- Establish and drive partnerships outside of the Product Area, to leverage the insights and skills from partners such as Marketing, Shared Technology and other Games teams.

Business Reporting & Finance:

- Ensure our financial stakeholders have the quantitative and qualitative information they need to understand the Area’s business and future plans.
- Accountable for staying within, tracking and establishing guidelines for the Area’s budgets including travel & expenses and headcount budgets.

Talent, Staffing & Culture:

- Coach, mentor and support our leaders and managers within the Area
- Communicate and operationalise our culture so that it is deeply integrated within our work.
- Team up with our HR Business Partners and other partners to execute on HR processes and change management, as well as keeping an overview of the staffing and hiring needs

**Skills to Create Thrills**:

- Excellent knowledge of multiple operational functions and principles, including finance, software development and management
- Demonstrated ability to plan and manage operational processes for maximum efficiency and productivity
- Excellent at communication (written and oral)
- Stakeholder management and relationship building at a senior and executive level (cross functional)
- Highly organised & proactive doer who can make things happen

**About King**

King is the game developer behind the world
- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top
- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

**A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes**

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

**Making the World Playful**

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid
- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If 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.



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