Release and Deployment Manager

Pixel Toys

Royal Leamington Spa

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Long service days

Private Medical Insurance

Company Pension

Death in Service benefit

Staff training and development

Wellness days

Flexi-time

Job summary

Pixel Toys in Leamington Spa seeks a seasoned Release/Deployment Manager to coordinate the end-to-end game release process. You will act as the technical gatekeeper for version control, manage multi-branch merges, and align production with QA, platform submissions, and post-release care.

You will collaborate with engineering and product teams, plan updates, patches, and live ops content, ensuring stability across client/server deployments while minimizing player impact and facilitating smooth

Qualifications

Experience as Release Manager for live-service/mobile games.
Strong knowledge of Git and Perforce merge workflows.
Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and submission processes for App Store Connect/Google Play.

Responsibilities

Oversee production release cycles and gatekeeper for version control across branches.
Coordinate game updates, patches, hotfixes, and live ops content in a flexible release calendar.
Manage deployments for iOS/Android via App Store Connect and Google Play Console; monitor telemetry for stability.
Plan go/no-go decisions, coordinate rollbacks or hotfixes when needed, and drive postmortems to improve processes.

Skills

Git

Perforce

Version control

Branching strategies

Merge tracking

CI/CD

TestFlight

App Store Connect

Google Play

Release management

Live ops

Tools

CI/CD tools

Build orchestration

Automation

Job description

Based in the heart of Leamington Spa, Pixel Toys have spent over a decade pushing the capabilities of mobile gaming. We have developed multiple award-winning titles, including: Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realm War; and we’re now excited to be exclusively working on a new game, unlike ANYTHING we’ve done previously!

As a forward thinking and innovative studio we are always looking for new technologies and techniques to develop and use in our games and make them even more engaging experiences for our customers.

We are excited to continue to grow our team and are always on the lookout for highly talented and motivated individuals, who are passionate about gaming and excited to join us on our ambitious journey!

The Role:

Working alongside our current Release Manager, act as the technical "air traffic controller" for our entire development pipeline!

In this critical role you will deeply embed yourself with the engineering and product teams to understand exactly what is being delivered in every release cycle, managing complex code and branch merges to ensure that our client, server, data, and live operations deployments remain predictable, stable, and seamless.

As the primary gatekeeper for version control, you will orchestrate merges across multiple development branches to prevent conflicts and regression, keeping a sharp eye on build health and ensuring our main deployment branches remain absolutely stable.

You will strategically plan and coordinate with Production to schedule game updates, patches, hotfixes, and live ops content into a flexible, living release calendar that can adapt to both planned and unplanned changes. Through shepherding new features smoothly through the workflow, you will help guide them from initial scope lock all the way through QA approvals, platform submission, and post-release care while communicating daily priorities and branch dependencies to the wider game team.

On the deployment front, you will be responsible for overseeing storefront operations for both iOS and Android platforms via App Store Connect and the Google Play Developer Console, tracking live client and server rollouts alongside player-impacting telemetry to guarantee absolute stability.

Technical risks or blockers won't stand in your way. Instead, you will proactively identify and mitigate them, participating actively in critical go/no-go decisions before major milestones. If deployment issues arise, you will confidently coordinate rollback or hotfix plans to minimise player impact, subsequently leading postmortems to translate incident learnings into documented, automated, or refined release processes that continuously improve our deployment pipeline.

About you:

Join Pixel Toys as a seasoned deployment specialist with proven experience as a Release Manager, Deployment Manager, or Technical Project Manager working on live-service and free-to-play mobile games.

Possessing a robust technical foundation in version control systems like Git and Perforce, with a sophisticated understanding of complex branching strategies, merge tracking, and dependency management. Your platform expertise features hands-on experience with build orchestration and automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, TestFlight, and the direct management of submissions via App Store Connect and the Google Play Developer Console.

Beyond your logistical expertise, you are an autonomous self-starter with a proactive mindset, capable of confidently diving deep into technical specifications, speaking the same language as our engineering teams, and extracting exactly what is required for each build.

You will also be an exceptional cross-functional communicator who excels at bridging the gap between highly technical issues and high-level business goals, smoothly translating complex merge challenges into clear, actionable risks for producers and product managers alike.

What can Pixel Toys offer:

At Pixel Toys we are proud of the progressive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment we have created; a place where everyone has the opportunity to be themselves and is welcomed and valued for who they are and what they contribute. We have some fantastic benefits we offer our employees... Here are just some of them: