Senior Release Manager

Summary

Join Wildlight Entertainment, a new entertainment studio creating AAA games, as a Senior Release Manager. You will be a key part of our live service game operations, collaborating with developers to ensure timely and organized releases. Responsibilities include scheduling releases, coordinating build creation, managing certification, and handling hotfixes. You will be the primary contact for first-party partners. This role requires extensive experience in game release management and expertise in relevant tools and platforms. We offer competitive salaries, bonuses, royalties, and benefits including unlimited PTO, comprehensive healthcare, and paid parental leave. We are a remote-first company with offices in Los Angeles and Seattle.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience within the games industry with at least 5 years in a release management or similar role
• Experience in a similar role shipping at least one multiplatform title, preferably with a live service component
• Expertise in platform release processes and first-party requirements
• Deep expertise in game development pipelines and best practices for launch readiness
• Expert in JIRA and Confluence, with the ability to navigate Perforce and GitHub
• Exceptional communication and organization skills

Responsibilities

• Scheduling and communicating release streams based on the project's schedule
• Collaborating with developers to ensure that shipping content is ready and enabling content lockdown
• Own and coordinate the process required to create a shippable build, including bug tracking and triage
• Creating and validating release candidate builds and compiling release notes
• Own the process and organization of submitting a build for certification and publishing it to live. This includes managing the certification schedule, negotiating certification dates, rapid patching, and more
• Using established processes and tools to upload the appropriate release build to all platform backends
• Act as the primary point of contact for coordinating hotfixes after a build has shipped, working closely with internal developers, QA, and community managers to stay informed of player concerns

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in QA or Engineering
• Ability to script, with an interest in improving internal tools in relevant areas

Benefits

• Competitive industry standard base salaries
• An annual bonus
• Royalties
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Comprehensive healthcare, dental & vision coverage for you and your family
• Paid parental leave