Brightstar Lottery is hiring a Game Release Manager to own the release calendar and coordinate all releases for our Digital Draw Games portfolio. In this critical role, you will ensure successful deployment, maintain quality and compliance, and serve as the central point of communication across all stakeholders.
What You'll Do
- Own the release calendar for the Digital Draw Games portfolio, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps, marketing campaigns, and regulatory timelines.
- Coordinate releases across engineering, QA, product management, design, compliance, and operations.
- Ensure games achieve a release ready state tailored to each market and ensure that customer promise is fulfilled or proactively adjusted.
- Facilitate release planning sessions, stand-ups, and go/no-go meetings.
- Ensure successful deployment of games, updates, and platform enhancements across multiple environments (dev, test, staging, production).
- Own the release calendar per market/customer and become single point of contact around release readiness.
- Define and maintain standardised release processes, templates, and checklists.
- Partner with DevOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines for game delivery.
- Monitor readiness criteria, test completion, and defect management to guarantee release quality.
- Conduct risk assessments and mitigation planning for each release.
- Ensure rollback procedures, contingency plans, and incident responses are in place.
- Work closely with legal and compliance teams to ensure all releases meet required lottery regulations, security standards, and jurisdictional controls.
- Manage audit trails, documentation, and approvals for regulators.
- Act as the central point of contact for all release-related updates, risks, blockers, and timelines.
- Provide clear, proactive communication to internal teams and external partners.
- Produce weekly and monthly release reports and post-release retrospectives.
- Analyse release performance metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Advocate for automation, efficiency, and best-practice workflows across game development and release teams.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with release management, software deployment, or live operations (gaming, lottery, or fintech preferred).
- Understanding of CI/CD, Git, build processes, and deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Knowledge of QA methodologies and tools.
- Experience working in regulated gaming, iLottery, instant win games, or iGaming.
- Understanding of RNG-based game development and certification processes.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to manage pressure, tight deadlines, and shifting priorities.
- Problem-solving mindset with meticulous attention to detail.
Nice to Have
- Certifications in Release Management, Agile, or Project Management.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers or studios.
Technical Stack
- CI/CD
- Git
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
Work Mode
This position offers a hybrid work arrangement.
Brightstar is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, covered veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
