JOB Boards - Director of Release Management
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Requirements
• Experience evolving established systems and teams — improving clarity, standards, and maturity without disrupting what works • Strong understanding of mobile release pipelines (iOS, Android), client/server architectures, and live service workflows • Proven leadership of high-performing teams operating in fast-paced, cross-functional environments • Exceptional ability to align and influence across Engineering, Production, QA, and LiveOps • Strong systems thinking, operational judgment, and ability to drive phased, practical improvement grounded in real-world constraints • Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior partners across disciplines and geographies • Experience operating at the scale of a top-grossing mobile live service game • Background in incident response, reliability engineering, or large-scale operations • Familiarity with automation workflows, CI/CD, Bugsnag/Sentry, or build/validation tooling • Experience working with global multi-pod development structures • A collaborative leader who earns trust by understanding the work, not directing from a distance • A partner who respects existing expertise and helps teams elevate their practice, not replace it • Someone who brings clarity to ambiguity, structure to complexity, and alignment across disciplines • A systems thinker with an operational mindset — proactive, calm under pressure, and focused on long-term health • A leader who believes excellence comes from strong teams, shared understanding, and continual evolution • For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. • CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range • $161,000—$238,000 USD
Responsibilities
• Lead, empower, and grow the Release Management team • Mentor and develop Release Managers and RM QA, ensuring they continue to operate with autonomy while delivering consistently high-quality outcomes • Build clarity around roles, expectations, and growth paths within the team • Foster a collaborative, high-trust culture grounded in continuous improvement and shared accountability • Understand the current system deeply and guide its evolution • Immerse yourself in how releases operate today — observing workflows, constraints, and cross-functional dynamics • Use that understanding to drive practical, phased improvements that respect existing team expertise and organizational context • Partner closely with pods, Production Directors, QA, Engineering, and Incident Management to address systemic challenges upstream of release • Refine and evolve release strategy & governance • Own and strengthen the release governance framework, including Scope Lock, change control, quality gates, readiness criteria, and branching practices • Ensure consistent, predictable release rhythms across major, minor, hotfix, server-only, client, data, and OTA releases, including multiple in flight at one time • Align release practices with broader product and business goals, ensuring clarity and adoption across teams • Drive quality, risk management, and operational excellence • Define clear acceptance criteria for releases and oversee go/no-go standards • Improve pre-release quality signals, including Release Criteria scoring and regression handling • Collaborate closely with QA leadership on expectations for testing, validation, and bug taxonomy • Ensure learnings from incidents and postmortems translate into improved release processes • Champion cross-functional alignment and systemic clarity • Bring coherence, reliability, and shared understanding to workflows across Pods, QA, Engineering, LiveOps, and Production • Help standardize hotfix flows, minor release cycles, server-only releases, and multi-release feature rollouts • Promote healthy definitions of done, clearer ownership boundaries, and better upstream readiness • Guide modernization of tools and automation • Partner with Engineering, DevInfra, and Tools to reduce manual work through automation (PR validation, page creation, build size checks, reporting, etc.) • Advocate for improvements to build pipelines, environment readiness, and post-release monitoring • Support long-term evolution of branching strategy, validation tooling, and release environments • Advance operational maturity and incident prevention • Work with Incident Management to incorporate preventative controls and accountability into the release lifecycle • Oversee integration of postmortem insights into updated criteria, processes, and gating • Champion transparency, reliability, and continual learning across teams
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