Scopely is looking for a Senior Technical Director, Release Management & Automation (AI) to join the Central team. This role is located in our Barcelona office with a hybrid working policy.
This is a senior, high-impact leadership role on Central Studio Operations (CSO)—the team that partners directly with Scopely’s highest-revenue live products and our most ambitious cross-platform titles in development. Leading a team of managers and senior individual contributors, you will define the standards and “paved roads” that multiple game and central teams adopt by default—earning alignment through strong partnerships with studio leadership. Your mandate is clear: deliver measurable step-change improvements in release quality, delivery velocity, development of internal CSO solutions, and operational resilience at scale.
Own the vision of CSO RM capabilities through the definition and execution of a roadmap that elevates how game teams reduce time-to-submission for cross-platform offers and submissions.
Own the vision of CSO Automation capabilities through the definition and execution of a roadmap that elevates how CSO Programs enable game teams success.
Define and lead Scopely-wide standards for release readiness, risk management, and go/no-go criteria across multiple titles.
Establish and execute a development roadmap for central software solutions to address CSO needs
Partner with game TDs, D2C, and Publishing to create an industry-leading roadmap for the RM with solutions that simplify and accelerate offers submissions.
Own the RM and Automation rituals & processes for the team, including backlog prioritization, roadmap definition, product specs, communication, and feedback collection.
Build learning loops (postmortems, action tracking, preventative controls).
Experience with game development, preferably with Unity.
Lead and mentor managers and senior engineers across release engineering, and automation disciplines.
Align stakeholders across Production, Engineering, QA