Senior Release Manager

Job Description

PRODUCTION

What We Do

Whether it's driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, Epic's production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a quality-focused Senior Release Manager to work closely with our producers, programmers, build programmers, and QA teams to oversee the build and release process for Fortnite. In this position, you will work directly with the brightest technical minds in the business as we build the premier game engine for a multitude of platforms.

In this role, you will
• Developing new practices and structures to better scale release management and stabilization processes across our Fortnite ecosystem
• Managing a team of release managers, their tasking, and driving vision for team-sponsored initiatives.
• Own the scheduling, coordination, quality control and external certification process across multiple platforms and/or products
• Act as the liaison between external partners (such as Sony, MSFT, Nintendo) and the development team, coordinating and negotiating development plans, exceptions, sales/marketing/publishing content, as well as releases. Know and own the process for submitting builds to external partners inside and out, and is the expert on all things related to external build certification
• Work with the publishing and dev team to determine release content plans related to sales, giveaways, promotions, etc., and shepherd that content through external party approvals for release. Own the publishing tools verification process related to build certification and release
• Work closely with QA, Build Programmers, and Lead Programmers on monitoring the automated build and integration process to ensure correct build execution, and facilitate the resolution of build failures. Work with Build Programmers to understand and communicate the impact of branches and code merges
• Working closely with dev production, QA, and Live Ops teams on identifying and resolving risks related to releases. 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 and effectively communicating approved exceptions to all necessary parties

What we're looking for
• Production and people management/direct report experience with strong project management and communication skills
• Happy to deal with ambiguity and take on new tasks when the team requires it
• 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
• Experience working with database technology
• Exposure to platform certification processes
• Technical orientation and a strong understanding of software development
• Knowledge of game development process and exposure to working with shipped and live titles

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (excluding CA & WA).

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp6pj4-3-142-201-93-42 in your application.