Release Management Lead

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

PRODUCTION What We DoWhether 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 DoEpic Games is looking for a quality-focused Senior Release Manager to work closely with our producers, programmers, build engineers, 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  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 Engineers, 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, Air Table 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 titlesEPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFEOur intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.

We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT USEpic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been…