Release Manager (Game Development)

TL;DR

Release Manager (Game Development): Own the end-to-end path to live for game releases and major milestones, ensuring all required work is identified, tracked, and completed relative to the release. Focus on planning, scheduling, and coordinating releases across development, QA, operations, and publishing teams, including technical ownership of deployment and managing release dependencies, risks, and blockers.

Location: This is an onsite position. We will consider candidates for any of our four hirify.global office locations: Rockville, MD, US; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Austin, TX, US; or Dallas, TX, US. U.S.-based employees have access to specific healthcare and 401(k) benefits.

Salary: $145,000–$205,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is an award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout, striving to offer a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries and generous benefits.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end path to live for each release or major milestone, ensuring all required work is identified and completed.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate releases across development, QA, operations, platform partners, and publishing teams.
• Serve as the technical owner of publishing and deployment work, including build readiness and release execution.
• Lead Go/No-Go decision points and ensure all technical, quality, and compliance criteria are met.
• Track and manage release dependencies, risks, and blockers, providing on-call support during release windows.
• Drive consistency, predictability, and continuous improvement in shipping processes using data and feedback.

Requirements

• 3–7+ years of experience in release management, delivery management, DevOps, program management, or a closely related role.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience guiding projects or teams through influence rather than direct authority.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-team release lifecycles in a production environment.
• Experience with multi-platform releases (PC, console, mobile) and storefront pipelines, configuration, and third-party certification requirements.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and deployment practices and workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping live products or games, including post-launch support and live operations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Ability to operate as a technical authority on release readiness while partnering with production and live teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries and a generous benefits program, including U.S.-based healthcare, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation/sick time.
• Offices located in North America’s best cities.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering safe and respectful workplaces.
• This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.