Director of Release Management (GameDev)

TL;DR

Director of Release Management (GameDev): Guiding the evolution of a Release Management organization and partnering with QA, Engineering, Production, and Incident Management to ensure predictable, stable, and excellent delivery of client, server, data, and live operations releases. Focus on strengthening release governance, improving operational maturity, and championing cross-functional alignment.

Location: Hybrid in Barcelona or Seville (Spain) or remote from US, Canada, UK, Portugal or Ireland

Salary: $161,000 - $238,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences like "MONOPOLY GO!".

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow the Release Management team, fostering a collaborative culture.
• Deeply understand current systems and drive practical, phased improvements.
• Refine and evolve release strategy and governance, including scope lock and quality gates.
• Drive quality, risk management, and operational excellence for releases.
• Champion cross-functional alignment and systemic clarity across teams.
• Guide modernization of tools and automation for build pipelines and monitoring.
• Advance operational maturity and incident prevention within the release lifecycle.

Requirements

• Experience evolving established systems and teams, improving clarity and standards.
• Strong understanding of mobile release pipelines (iOS, Android), client/server architectures, and live service workflows.
• Proven leadership of high-performing teams 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.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior partners.

Nice to have

• 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 distributed QA or multi-pod development structures.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, retirement, pet insurance.
• Paid holidays, hirify.global free days, and unlimited paid time off.
• Global team of game lovers developing, publishing, and innovating mobile games.
• Team is based in Canada, Europe, and the US, fostering captivating new experiences.