Senior Technical Director, Release Management & Automation (AI)

Location: Barcelona, Spain; hybrid work from the Barcelona office

Company

hirify.global is a global video game and interactive entertainment company creating, developing, publishing, and operating mobile, web, PC, and console games.

What you will do

• Define and execute roadmaps for release management and automation capabilities across Central Studio Operations.
• Establish hirify.global-wide standards for release readiness, risk management, and go/no-go decisions across multiple game titles.
• Build repeatable governance, operational metrics, postmortems, action tracking, and preventative controls to improve delivery predictability.
• Lead the development of central software solutions that simplify cross-platform offers and submission workflows.
• Own team rituals and processes, including backlog prioritization, product specifications, roadmap communication, and feedback collection.
• Lead managers and senior individual contributors while partnering with Production, Engineering, QA, LiveOps, Security, Data, Publishing, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• Senior engineering leadership experience, including managing managers or leading multi-team organizations.
• Experience building or leading release engineering, developer productivity, or automation programs at scale.
• Experience in release management across mobile, PC, and console platforms.
• Strong technical background in modern delivery practices, automation, and governance for complex multi-team environments.
• Experience owning product strategy and roadmaps and influencing senior stakeholders across decentralized organizations.
• Experience applying AI/ML-assisted approaches in engineering workflows or leading this transformation with partners.

Nice to have

• Game development experience, preferably with Unity.
• Experience with live-service games or high-availability consumer platforms.
• Expertise in progressive delivery, including feature flags, canary releases, blue/green deployments, and release safety tooling.
• Experience with compliance, security, and privacy requirements in deployment pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy based from the Barcelona office.
• Work within a geographically distributed organization and collaborate with teams across global operations.
• Fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with an emphasis on continuous learning.
• Opportunity to influence release engineering and automation standards across a diversified game portfolio.