About the role
Department
Production
Location
Cary, United States
Product
Fortnite
Company
Epic Games
What Makes Us Epic
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, the team is always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by the community and users.
Production Overview
Whether it’s driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences. Epic Games is looking for a quality-focused Senior Release Manager to work closely with producers, programmers, build engineers, and QA teams to oversee the build and release process for the Fortnite Ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Developing new practices and structures to better scale release management and stabilization processes across the Game Dev ecosystem.
- Managing a sub-team of release managers.
- Owning the scheduling, coordination, quality control, and external certification process across multiple platforms and/or products.
- Acting as the liaison between multiple development teams, coordinating and negotiating development plans, exceptions, sales/marketing/publishing content, and releases.
- Working with publishing and development teams to determine release content plans as related to sales, giveaways, promotions, etc., and shepherding that content through external party approvals for release.
- Working closely with QA, Build Engineers, and Lead Programmers to monitor the automated build and integration process, facilitate the resolution of build failures, and understand and communicate the impact of branches and code merges.
- Partnering with QA Leads to establish and maintain the bug triage process and prioritize must-fix issues.
- Coordinating internal and external release notes, known issues, and knowledge base updates.
- Ensuring releases have passed all required checks and approvals leading up to live deployment.
- Communicating approved exceptions to all necessary parties.
Requirements
- Strong production/project management skills, communication skills, and people management/direct report experience.
- Demonstrated ability in right-sized process development and improvement.
- Experience with build and release processes for Software or Games as a Service product.
- Familiar with Perforce, Jira, Grafana, AirTable.
- Exposure to platform certification processes.
- Technical orientation and a strong understanding of software development.
- Knowledge of the game development process and exposure to working with shipped and live titles.
Benefits
- Health and Wellness: Epic covers 100% of the premiums for both employees and dependents for Medical, Dental, and Vision HRA.
- Insurance: Long Term Disability and Life Insurance provided.
- Retirement: 401k with competitive match.
- Mental Health: Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.
- Work-Life Balance: Unlimited PTO and sick time.
- Events and Time Off: Celebration of employees with events and company-wide paid breaks throughout the year.
- Sabbatical: Paid sabbatical granted for 7 years of employment.
About Us
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years, the company has made award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content. Unreal Engine technology provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, and is used across media, entertainment, automotive, and architectural design industries. Epic Games values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and is an Equal Opportunity employer.