Senior Release Manager

4 Months ago • 3-5 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

Rovio is seeking a Senior Release Manager to lead the full release lifecycle for Angry Birds 2, ensuring seamless coordination across teams. You'll shape release processes, define roadmaps, and handle risks, leveraging your expertise in game releases, build processes, and version control.
Must have:
  • Game Release Management
  • Technical Expertise
  • Collaboration Skills
  • Release Lifecycle
Good to have:
  • Live Operations
  • Project Management
  • Mobile Titles
  • Version Control Systems
Perks:
  • Work At Rovio
  • Angry Birds 2

Job Details

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

We are looking for a Senior Release Manager to join our Stockholm Studio, home to Rovio’s iconic game Angry Birds 2. In this role, you will be in charge of successful game releases, ensuring seamless coordination across various teams. You are known for your outstanding communication and collaborative skills and will work on bridging gaps between all our development functions to deliver high-quality updates and experiences to millions of players.

If you are inspired by refining and owning the release process in our Stockholm studio - we would love to talk to you!

You will have impact and fun at work by:

    • Leading the entire release lifecycle from planning to post-launch support, ensuring alignment across all involved teams working on Angry Birds 2
    • Shaping how we work with releases and getting the opportunity to holistically redefine what a release for Angry Birds 2 looks like
    • Defining the release roadmap, working in close partnership with product management to align release plans with overarching business goals
    • Handling and mitigating risks by being proactive to mitigate those, minimising reactive firefighting and code changes for the development team
    • Keeping track of release progress and providing analysis on significant measures and potential bottlenecks
    • Continuously improving our processes by establishing constant feedback loops within the teams; exploring better administrative and configuration tooling; and bringing your industry expertise

Experience and skills we are looking for:

    • Proven experience and success in managing the full release lifecycle for a game, preferably for multiple mobile titles
    • A deep understanding of the technical aspects of game releases such as build processes, version control systems, and deployment tools
    • Ability to collaborate and create alignment across teams with differing priorities and opinions
    • Exceptional communication and teamwork skills
    • Experience with supporting Live Operations of games and Project Management within games development will be seen favourably
Please apply with your CV in English - we look forward to meeting you!


We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.

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About The Company

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.

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