Director of Release Management - Monopoly GO!

Scopely is looking for a Director of Release Management to join our Monopoly GO game!. This can be an hybrid role based in Barcelona or Seville (Spain) or remote from US, Canada, UK, Portugal or Ireland.

This leader will guide the evolution of an already strong Release Management organization, partnering closely with QA, Engineering, Production, and Incident Management to ensure that every release — client, server, data, and live operations — is predictable, stable, and delivered with excellence.

This is not a greenfield function. You will inherit an experienced and capable team, learn how our systems work today, and use that grounded understanding to shape the next stage of release governance for one of the most ambitious live service operations in the industry. Your job is to ensure outcomes, empower autonomy, strengthen alignment, and help the whole organization move toward greater clarity, consistency, and operational maturity.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

Monopoly GO! is our casual game and a key franchise that has Scopely’s largest game, enjoyed by millions of players. The team is based in Canada, Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.

What you’ll do

- Lead, empower, and grow the Release Management team

• Mentor and develop Release Managers and RM QA, ensuring they continue to operate with autonomy while delivering consistently high-quality outcomes

• Build clarity around roles, expectations, and growth paths within the team

• Foster a collaborative, high-trust culture grounded in continuous improvement and shared accountability

- Understand the current system deeply and guide its evolution

• Immerse yourself in how releases operate today — observing workflows, constraints, and cross-functional dynamics

• Use that understanding to drive practical, phased improvements that respect existing team expertise and organizational context

• Partner closely with pods, Production Directors, QA, Engineering, and Incident Management to address systemic challenges upstream of release

- Refine and evolve release strategy & governance

• Own and strengthen the release governance framework, including Scope Lock, change control, quality gates, readiness criteria, and branching practices

• Ensure consistent, predictable release rhythms across major, minor, hotfix, server-only, client, data, and OTA releases, including multiple in flight at one time

• Align release practices with broader product and business goals, ensuring clarity and adoption across teams

- Drive quality, risk management, and operational excellence

• Define clear acceptance criteria for releases and oversee go/no-go standards

• Improve pre-release quality signals, including Release Criteria scoring and regression handling

• Collaborate closely with QA leadership on expectations for testing, validation, and bug taxonomy

• Ensure learnings from incidents and postmortems translate into improved release processes

- Champion cross-functional alignment and systemic clarity

• Bring coherence, reliability, and shared understanding to workflows across Pods, QA, Engineering, LiveOps, and Production

• Help standardize hotfix flows, minor release cycles, server-only releases, and multi-release feature rollouts

• Promote healthy definitions of done, clearer ownership boundaries, and better upstream readiness

- Guide modernization of tools and automation

• Partner with Engineering, DevInfra, and Tools to reduce manual work through automation (PR validation, page creation, build size checks, reporting, etc.)

• Advocate for improvements to build pipelines, environment readiness, and post-release monitoring

• Support long-term evolution of branching strategy, validation tooling, and release environments

- Advance operational maturity and incident prevention

• Work with Incident Management to incorporate preventative controls and accountability into the release lifecycle

• Oversee integration of postmortem insights into updated criteria, processes, and gating

• Champion transparency, reliability, and continual learning across teams

What we’re looking for

• Experience evolving established systems and teams, improving clarity, standards, and maturity without disrupting what works

• Strong understanding of mobile release pipelines (iOS, Android), client/server architectures, and live service workflows

• Proven leadership of high-performing teams operating in fast-paced, cross-functional environments

• Exceptional ability to align and influence across Engineering, Production, QA, and LiveOps

• Strong systems thinking, operational judgment, and ability to drive phased, practical improvement grounded in real-world constraints

• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior partners across disciplines

Bonus points

• Experience operating at the scale of a top-grossing mobile live service game

• Background in incident response, reliability engineering, or large-scale operations

• Familiarity with automation workflows, CI/CD, Bugsnag/Sentry, or build/validation tooling

• Experience working with distributed QA or multi-pod development structures

For 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.

CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range

$161,000—$238,000 USD