Release Manager

Location: Barcelona, Spain (Hybrid, 3 days a week).
Visa Sponsorship: Available from any location.

Role Overview

The Technical Release Manager will own the complete path from local changes to validated availability across all development lanes. You will set the technical strategy and operating model for how hundreds of contributors safely exchange changes while maintaining velocity. This is a senior technical leadership role that requires both deep technical credibility and cross-functional coordination skills for an ambitious, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title.

What You’ll Do

• Own the path from local work to validated availability, including branch strategy, merge policy, propagation, validation, and exception handling across all development lanes.
• Set the lifecycle contract for each development lane: why it exists, what belongs there, how it stays synchronized, conflict resolution, and retirement criteria.
• Design and implement the technical systems and policies that enable change management at scale across source control, CI/CD, validation, and release infrastructure.
• Surface dependencies and potential integration collisions early enough for teams to sequence work or knowingly accept rework, then preserve ordering and context as changes move between lanes.
• Give all contributors a clear view of change status, blockers, ownership, and recovery paths, with downstream failures traceable to their source.
• Improve conflict detection and target-lane validation; automate routine merge actions, propagation, backports, cleanup, and notifications.
• Study how engineers, artists, designers, QA, production, and build teams work; remove unnecessary ceremony, waiting, and specialist dependencies.
• Measure flow health metrics and turn incidents and proven manual practices into better policy, tooling, and operations.
• Coordinate work across Developer Experience, QA, CI/build infrastructure, production operations, and domain teams, with clear owners and backup coverage for critical operations.
• Mentor and develop junior team members in release engineering and infrastructure practices.

What We’re Looking For

• Highly experienced hands-on engineer with a track record of technical leadership on cross-functional programs.
• Strong background in source control systems, branch strategies, merge queues, and CI/CD infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate technical systems that support development teams at organizational scale.
• Experience with release management, validation policy, and deployment infrastructure in complex product environments.
• Exceptional ability to balance speed, stability, and delivery goals while explaining complex tradeoffs to senior leaders and teams.
• Strong communication and people skills; ability to influence engineers, artists, designers, QA, and production teams without direct authority.
• Proven track record of converting manual, repetitive processes into automated, well-documented systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to analyze source control history, diagnose CI and integration failures, and prototype supporting tooling.
• Curiosity about how different disciplines work and a habit of finding the real workflow behind technical problems.

Bonus Points

• Game development experience, particularly with Unity or large monorepos.
• Experience with Git LFS, binary/non-mergeable assets, or parallel development mainlines.
• Operating high-volume merge queues or change systems at substantial organizational scale.
• Multiple simultaneous live releases or long-term development track experience.
• Experience with large tightly-coupled products or complex content pipelines.
• Knowledge of DevOps, build infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience designing developer productivity and experience improvements.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved experiences, including “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble franchise, and “Yahtzee With Buddies.” Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team of thousands of world-class gamemakers, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Scopely is the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue.

Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play. Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.