Scopely · 10 hours ago
Director of Release Management - Monopoly GO!
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$161K/yr - $238K/yrScopely is a global interactive entertainment company seeking a Director of Release Management for their Monopoly GO game. This role involves leading the Release Management team, ensuring predictable and stable releases while collaborating with various departments to improve release processes and governance.
Digital EntertainmentMobile AppsOnline GamesSoftwareVideo Games
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Equity
Bonuses
Comprehensive benefits package
Healthcare benefits
Retirement benefits
Pet insurance
Paid holidays
Paid Scopely free days
Unlimited paid time off
Company
Scopely
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
Founded in 2011
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$998.5MKey Investors
NewView CapitalRevolution GrowthAnthem Venture Partners
2023-04-05Acquired
2021-10-18Secondary Market
2020-12-11Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Javier Ferreira
Co-CEO
Walter Driver
Co-Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO
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