Release Manager

Epic Games; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company in Vancouver is seeking a Release Manager to oversee release management for Unreal Engine. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, experience with release processes, and great communication abilities. You will coordinate multiple tasks and collaborate across disciplines to ensure high-quality product delivery. This role offers a supportive work environment with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

100% benefits coverage for employees and dependents

Mental well-being program through Modern Health

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication required.
• Experience in collaborative environments on large projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop practices for scaling release management.
• Coordinate quality control and deployment processes.
• Monitor automated build and integration processes.
• Establish bug triage and prioritization process.
• Coordinate release notes and knowledge base updates.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Collaboration on large projects

Experience with Jira

Release processes experience

Familiarity with game engines

Tools

Jira

Perforce

Github

Job description

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 Do

Whether 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 Do

Epic Games is looking for a quality focused Release Manager to play a pivotal role in how Unreal Engine reaches creators and players around the globe. You will work with talented teams across disciplines to bring industry defining technology to life on time and at the highest quality. The Release Management team ensures every build that goes out meets the Epic standard. You will lead the charge on risk management, clear communication, milestone execution, and delivering the tools that empower the next generation of creativity.

In this role, you will

• Develop new practices and structures to better scale release management and stabilization processes across our Unreal Engine ecosystem
• Own the scheduling, coordination, quality control, and deployment processes across multiple platforms and services
• Understand the process for submitting builds to different environments inside and out, and will be an expert on all things related to Unreal Engine deployments
• Coordinate across all disciplines to ensure release plans, marketing, community messaging, and other key beats are considered and executed properly for each release
• Work closely with QA, Build Programmers, and Lead Programmers on monitoring the automated build and integration process
• Work with QA Leads to establish and maintain bug triage process, determine and prioritize must-fix issues for release and work with appropriate team members to ensure bug fixes happen as planned
• Coordinate internal and external release notes, known issues, and knowledge base updates

What we’re looking for

• Strong project management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proven ability to collaborate on large projects across multiple disciplines
• Experience utilizing project management tools like Jira to track work across teams and projects
• Experience with build and release processes for Content Creation Tools or Games as a Service products
• Familiarity with Perforce, Github, or other source control software is a plus
• Familiarity with game engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, etc is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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