Full-Time

Release Manager

Posted on 4/3/2024

Epic Games

Epic Games

5,001-10,000 employees

Video game developer (makers of Fortnight)

Industrial & Manufacturing
Consumer Software
Real Estate
Education
Gaming

Compensation Overview

$106,314 - $155,927Annually

+ Discretionary Incentive Programs

Junior, Mid, Senior

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Required Skills
Quality Assurance (QA)
JIRA
Requirements
  • Strong project management and communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability in right-sized process development and improvement
  • Experience with build and release processes for Software or Games as a Service product
  • Familiar with Perforce, Jira, Grafana
  • Exposure to platform certification processes
  • Technical orientation and a strong understanding of software development
  • Knowledge of the game development process and exposure to working with shipped and live titles
Responsibilities
  • Working closely with dev production, QA, and Live Ops teams on identifying and resolving risks related to milestones and releases
  • Developing new practices and structures to better scale release management and stabilization processes across our Fortnite ecosystem
  • Owning the scheduling, coordination, quality control, and external certification process across multiple platforms and/or products
  • Knowing the process for submitting builds to external partners inside and out, and is the expert on all things related to external build certification
  • Working 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
  • Coordinating internal and external release notes, known issues, and knowledge base updates
  • Ensuring releases have passed all required checks and approvals leading up to live deployment and effectively communicating approved exceptions to all necessary parties

Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$15.4B

Headquarters

Cary, North Carolina

Founded

1991

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

9%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

33%

Benefits

Health coverage - 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match and profit share

Robust mental well-being programs & free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents

Unlimited PTO & sick time

Paid sabbatical

INACTIVE