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This is a remote opportunity for individuals in Canada or the United States.\nAs a Director, Cloud Governance you will play a pivotal leadership role in defining and executing the Scopely’s Cloud Governance strategy. This team will define, implement, and enforce the policies and controls that govern how cloud infrastructure is used across a decentralized organization of game, platform, and product teams.\nThis role is critical to bringing structure, consistency, and guardrails to Scopely’s cloud footprint, and will be key in modernizing our overall governance posture. As a central leader, you will drive alignment across highly autonomous teams and translate governance into practical, adoptable solutions while balancing control and development velocity.\nThis is a foundational leadership role; you will establish governance from the ground up, introduce scalable and enforceable controls, and drive adoption and buy-in across various teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.\nWhat You Will Do\nBuild & Lead Cloud Governance\nBuild and lead a Cloud Governance team\nDefine the operating model for how governance partners with game teams, security, and FinOps\nEstablish clear ownership and enforcement mechanisms for cloud policies\nDefine & Enforce Cloud Guardrails\nDesign and implement enforceable controls across AWS and GCP, including:\nAWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs)\nGCP Organization Policies and IAM constraints\nEstablish guardrails around:\nResource provisioning and service usage\nRegion restrictions and data residency\nIdentity and access management\nNetwork architecture and environment isolation\nOwn the mandate to enforce policies, including the ability to restrict or block non-compliant usage\nStandardize Cloud Structure\nDefine and implement standards for:\nAWS account structure and GCP project/folder hierarchy\nEnvironment segmentation (prod, staging, dev)\nNaming conventions and resource organization\nBring consistency across a fragmented, multi-team cloud footprint\nTagging & Governance\nDefine and enforce tagging standards in partnership with FinOps\nEnsure all resources are attributable (ownership, environment, cost center)\nEnable downstream cost allocation and operational visibility\nStakeholder Partnership\nCollaborate with FinOps on cost allocation and optimization levers (budgets, quotas, usage controls)\nPartner with Security to align governance with security and compliance requirements\nWork directly with game teams to safely roll out and drive adoption of policies and standards\nAI-Forward Governance & Automation\nDefine and execute an AI-native vision for cloud governance, transforming the function into an intelligent, policy-driven operating model powered by autonomous and agentic systems\nEstablish the organization’s strategy for governance autonomy, defining where fully autonomous operations, human-on-the-loop oversight, and human-in-the-loop approvals are appropriate based on risk, business impact, and compliance requirements\nArchitect and drive agentic governance capabilities that continuously monitor cloud environments, detect risk, and autonomously remediate anomalies at scale\nPartner across engineering, data, and security, and platform teams to embed responsible AI governance into cloud platforms, establishing guardrails for AI adoption, autonomous decision-making, and auditability\nWhat We're Looking For\n10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE\n3-5+ years leading teams in complex, multi-team environments\nExperience operating in decentralized or federated engineering organizations\nProven track record implementing cloud governance and enforcement at scale\nExperience managing or influencing environments with $50M+ cloud spend\nDeep hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP\nStrong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)\nExperience with policy-as-code and governance tooling (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config)\nStrong understanding of cloud networking, identity, and multi-account design\nFor candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.\nCA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range\n$175,000—$210,000 USD\nAbout Scopely\nScopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry - bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.\nFounded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.\nRecognized multiple times as one of the \"100 Most Influential Companies in the World\" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's \"World's Most Innovative Companies\" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.\nScopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/. \nNotice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.\nShould you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact . Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: California Privacy Notice and EEA/UK Privacy Notice.\nEmployment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. 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