Barcelona-Based Live Release Operations Director

Scopely; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a Director of Live Roadmap & Release Operations to oversee MONOPOLY GO!’s live roadmap and release ecosystem from Barcelona on a hybrid basis. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, own governance, risk assessment, and tooling to ensure reliable live releases at scale.

The role requires strong operational leadership, deep technical understanding of deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response, and the ability to drive strategic and tactical execution across

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading live operations, release management, or related function in a live‑service environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning or influencing high‑frequency releases across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Strong operational judgment balancing delivery speed, technical risk, player experience, and business priorities.
• Technical fluency in software delivery, production environments, deployment workflows, validation, monitoring, rollback, and incident response.
• Experience partnering with Engineering on release tooling, automation, and production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating health of the live roadmap, ensuring priorities, sequencing, dependencies, capacity, and release plans are realistic and executable.
• Establish and evolve end‑to‑end operating model from roadmap to post‑release review.
• Lead release governance, gates, ownership, go/no‑go, escalation paths, rollback planning, and post‑release validation.
• Coordinate complex, high‑frequency live releases across Product, Engineering, Live Ops, Production, QA, Content and partners.
• Identify risks early and drive mitigation and clear decision‑making.
• Partner with engineering to improve deployment pipelines, tooling, observability, dashboards, automation, and operational tooling.
• Translate operational needs into technical requirements and prioritise tooling and platform improvements to reduce manual work.
• Establish metrics and reporting for roadmap health, release readiness, incidents, and time to resolution.
• Improve workflows by removing handoffs, clarifying ownership, and increasing automation.
• Step into critical launches or incidents to drive rapid resolution with cross‑functional coordination.
• Lead operational change so new processes and tooling become embedded, not just introduced.
• Build trusted partnerships with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Production, QA, Data, and Live Ops.
• Mentor Producers, Release Managers, Engineering Managers, and other operational leaders in live delivery.

Job description

Scopely is seeking a Director of Live Roadmap & Release Operations to oversee MONOPOLY GO!’s live roadmap and release ecosystem from Barcelona on a hybrid basis. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, own governance, risk assessment, and tooling to ensure reliable live releases at scale.

The role requires strong operational leadership, deep technical understanding of deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response, and the ability to drive strategic and tactical execution across