Game Release Manager
Pubblicato il 28-08-2026 - Brightstar Lottery in Roma
**Location**:Roma, IT, 00154 **Requisition ID**:19066 **Responsibilities** **Release Planning & Coordination**
- Own the release calendar for the Digital Draw Games portfolio, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps, marketing campaigns, and regulatory timelines.
- Coordinate and releases across engineering, QA, product management, design, compliance, and operations.
- Ensure game achieve a release ready state tailored to each market and ensure that customer promise is fulfilled or proactively adjusted according to feasibility
- Facilitate release planning sessions, stand-ups, and go/no-go meetings. **Deployment Management**
- 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 for ongoing and upcoming games.
- Define and maintain standardised release processes, templates, and checklists.
- Partner with DevOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines for game delivery. **Quality & Risk Management**
- 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. **Compliance & Regulatory Alignment**
- 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. **Stakeholder Communication**
- 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. **Process Improvement**
- Analyse release performance metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Advocate for automation, efficiency,
and best-practice workflows across game development and release teams. **Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Certifications in Release Management, Agile, or Project Management.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers or studios. **Required Tech Skills**
- 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. **Soft Skills**
- 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. **Success Profile**
- Leading Complexity
- Leading People
- Leading the Business
- Leading Self
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