Release Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Scale release management and stabilization practices across the game development ecosystem and manage a sub-team of release managers.
• Own scheduling, coordination, quality control, and external certification across multiple platforms or products.
• Coordinate development plans, exceptions, publishing content, and releases among development teams.
• Plan release content with publishing and development teams and secure external approvals for sales, giveaways, and promotions.
• Monitor automated builds and integrations; facilitate resolution of build failures and communicate the impact of branches and code merges.
• Maintain bug triage with QA leads and prioritize must-fix issues.
• Coordinate release notes, known issues, and knowledge-base updates; confirm required checks and approvals before live deployment and communicate exceptions.

What Epic is looking for

• Strong production/project management and communication skills, including people management or direct-report experience.
• Ability to develop and improve appropriately scaled processes.
• Experience with build and release processes for software or games-as-a-service products.
• Technical orientation and strong understanding of software development.

Additional experience and tools

• Familiarity with Perforce, Jira, Grafana, and AirTable.
• Exposure to platform certification processes.
• Knowledge of game development and exposure to shipped and live titles.

Compensation

• British Columbia annual base pay range: CAD 128,886–189,033; compensation varies based on skills, qualifications, knowledge, and experience.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, life and AD&D, disability coverage, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee assistance, and mental well-being services.

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