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We can support with visa sponsorship from any location. \nAt Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!\nWe are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title, creating a team of talented and passionate game makers to join us on this exciting journey!\nThe Technical Release Manager will own the complete path from local changes to validated availability across all development lanes. You will set the technical strategy and operating model for how hundreds of contributors safely exchange changes while maintaining velocity. This is a senior technical leadership role that requires both deep technical credibility and cross-functional coordination skills\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the path from local work to validated availability, including branch strategy, merge policy, propagation, validation, and exception handling across all development lanes\nSet the lifecycle contract for each development lane: why it exists, what belongs there, how it stays synchronized, conflict resolution, and retirement criteria\nDesign and implement the technical systems and policies that enable change management at scale across source control, CI/CD, validation, and release infrastructure\nSurface dependencies and potential integration collisions early enough for teams to sequence work or knowingly accept rework, then preserve ordering and context as changes move between lanes\nGive all contributors a clear view of change status, blockers, ownership, and recovery paths, with downstream failures traceable to their source\nImprove conflict detection and target-lane validation; automate routine merge actions, propagation, backports, cleanup, and notifications\nStudy how engineers, artists, designers, QA, production, and build teams actually work; then remove unnecessary ceremony, waiting, and specialist dependencies\nMeasure flow health metrics and turn incidents and proven manual practices into better policy, tooling, and operations\nCoordinate work across Developer Experience, QA, CI/build infrastructure, production operations, and domain teams, with clear owners and backup coverage for critical operations\nMentor and develop junior team members in release engineering and infrastructure practices\nWhat We’re Looking For\nHighly experienced hands-on engineer with a track record of technical leadership on cross-functional programs\nStrong background in source control systems, branch strategies, merge queues, and CI/CD infrastructure\nDemonstrated ability to design and operate technical systems that support development teams at organizational scale\nExperience with release management, validation policy, and deployment infrastructure in complex product environments\nExceptional ability to balance speed, stability, and delivery goals while explaining complex tradeoffs to senior leaders and teams\nStrong communication and people skills; ability to influence engineers, artists, designers, QA, and production teams without direct authority\nProven track record of converting manual, repetitive processes into automated, well-documented systems\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience\nAbility to analyze source control history, diagnose CI and integration failures, and prototype supporting tooling\nCuriosity about how different disciplines work and habit of finding the real workflow behind technical problems\nBonus Points\nGame development experience, particularly with Unity or large monorepos\nExperience with Git LFS, binary/non-mergeable assets, or parallel development mainlines\nOperating high-volume merge queues or change systems at substantial organizational scale\nMultiple simultaneous live releases or long-term development track experience\nExperience with large tightly-coupled products or complex content pipelines\nKnowledge of DevOps, build infrastructure, or platform engineering\nExperience designing developer productivity and experience improvements\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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