Epic Games

Release Management Lead

Epic Games$128K — $189K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in production/project management
  • Proven leadership abilities in managing teams and direct reports
  • Expertise in developing scalable processes
  • Familiarity with build and release processes for Software or Games as a Service (GaaS)
  • Experience with tools like Perforce, Jira, Grafana, and AirTable
  • Understanding of platform certification processes
  • Technical knowledge of software development and game development cycles

Responsibilities

  • Develop new practices to enhance release management and stabilization
  • Manage scheduling, coordination, quality control, and external certifications
  • Serve as liaison among development teams, negotiating plans and releases
  • Collaborate with publishing teams on determining release content plans
  • Monitor automated build processes and resolve build failures
  • Partner with QA Leads on bug triage and prioritizing critical fixes
  • Communicate approved exceptions and ensure all releases pass necessary checks

Benefits

  • 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents
  • Coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, and critical illness
  • Telemedicine and life insurance options
  • Long-term disability insurance and short-term disability benefits
  • Robust mental health program including free therapy and coaching
  • Employee assistance program and retirement savings plan with competitive match
Full 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 the Fortnite Ecosystem. 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 Game Dev ecosystem, while 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/mktg/publishing content, as well as releases
  • Working with the 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 Programmers, 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, and ensuring releases have passed all required checks and approvals leading up to live deployment, while communicating approved exceptions to all necessary parties
What we're looking for
  • 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
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

British Columbia Base Pay Range

$128,886-$189,033 CAD

About Epic Games

Epic Games is a video game development company that is best known for creating the popular game Fortnite. The company was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Epic Games has developed a number of other successful games, including the Unreal series and Gears of War. The company is also known for its Unreal Engine, a game engine that is used by many other game developers. Epic Games is committed to advancing the state of the art in game development and creating innovative and engaging experiences for players.
Learn more about Epic Games
Size
2,700 employees
Industry
Founded
1991

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