Senior Release Manager (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Release Manager (Gamedev): Planning, coordinating, and ensuring the successful delivery of game releases across PC and mobile platforms with an accent on preparing builds for release, managing dependencies across teams, and ensuring release quality and stability. Focus on monitoring post-release health, coordinating rapid response, and aligning release expectations with backend services and infrastructure teams.

Location: Los Angeles, USA

Salary: $135,700.00 - $188,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Company

Riot Games creates games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Create, maintain, and communicate release schedules across PC, iOS, and Android platforms.
• Coordinate with feature teams, QA, live ops, publishing, and platform partners to align on release content and timing.
• Ensure go/no-go criteria are clearly defined and consistently evaluated before release.
• Own the end-to-end release process, including final QA sign-off, build packaging, submission, and rollout to stores.
• Monitor telemetry, health dashboards, crash reports, and user feedback after each release.
• Coordinate rapid response and hotfix efforts when issues are detected post-release.

Requirements

• 3+ years in release management, technical program management, or similar role in the game or software industry.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, source control (e.g., Perforce), and build systems (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, Unity Cloud Build, etc.).
• Experience working with iOS and Android app store submissions, including phased rollouts and store metadata requirements.
• Strong understanding of live service operations and post-launch telemetry monitoring (e.g., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana).
• Excellent organizational and communication skills; able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.

Nice to have

• Experience with cross-platform game development pipelines (PC, mobile).
• Technical background or formal training in software engineering or computer science.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and other Agile tools.
• Prior experience in a live games or mobile game studio environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work/life balance, shown by open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.