Overview Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced work-life balance by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in North America’s best cities. With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you! We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX. Responsibilities As a Release Manager , you will… Own the end-to-end path to live for each release or major milestone, ensuring all required work is identified, tracked, and completed relative to release or the next milestone. Educate internal partners on release process and requirements Plan, schedule, and coordinate releases across development, QA, operations, platform partners, and publishing teams. Maintain release calendars, deployment plans, cutover and rollback strategies, and key documentation (runbooks, timelines, release artifacts) Serve as the technical owner of publishing and deployment work, including build readiness, environment coordination, submission timing, and release execution. Lead Go/No-Go decision points and ensure all technical, quality, and compliance criteria are met. Track and manage release dependencies, risks, and blockers—escalate issues early, resolve them ahead of release, and provide on-call support during release windows Coordinate certification and submission processes for publishing platforms (e.g., console, mobile, storefronts) Provide clear, timely status reporting on release readiness, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders and leadership. Maintain a release repository with procedures, dependencies, notification lists and release details Maintain a centralized release repository with processes, dependencies, communication lists, release details, and archived final assets, ensuring all submissions meet first-party, ratings board, and broader compliance requirements Develop and provide short- and long-term release reporting and metrics. Drive consistency, predictability, and continuous improvement in how we ship, using data, retrospectives, and feedback. Take on adjacent responsibilities that support healthier, more reliable releases as our tools, partners, and games evolve. Qualifications What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.? You have 3–7+ years of experience in release management, delivery management, DevOps, program management, or a closely related role. You have a minimum of 2 years’ experience guiding projects or teams through influence rather than direct authority. You’ve demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-team release lifecycles in a production environment. You have experience with multi-platform releases (PC, console, mobile, handheld) and storefront pipelines, configuration, third-party certification requirements, compliance, and submission tooling. You bring a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and deployment practices and workflows. You’re comfortable coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders with competing priorities and multiple dependencies. You have a proven ability to manage risk, drive decisions, and operate effectively under time-critical release conditions. You excel at leveraging automation solutions and tools to streamline workflows and minimize manual effort. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Preferred Skills Bonus Bonus Skills You have experience shipping live products or games, including post-launch support and live operations. You can operate as a technical authority on release readiness while partnering closely with production and live teams. You possess a process-oriented mindset with a focus on clarity, accountability, and repeatable execution. You have familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps). You have a high attention to detail paired with the ability to think systemically about end-to-end delivery. We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age. Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve. You will receive an automated email confirming we have received your resume. Due to the high volume of applications received, it\'s not possible for us to respond directly to each candidate. Don\'t see your desired position listed? Apply under "General Application" instead! If you are selected, you will be contacted by our team for an initial phone screen to chat about your previous experience. You may go through one or two phone interviews, and possibly a follow-up Skype call. If your qualifications do not match the criteria of a current position, your resume will be kept on file. Site Visit The next step will be an invitation to come out and meet the team at the studio for onsite interviews. In the event that we choose not to move forward at any point in the recruiting process, we will let you know. Your Privacy ZeniMax understands the importance of privacy. Please review the Applicant Privacy Notice attached to each position, which explains how we process the personal information we collect about you when you apply for a job or submit information to us through our job portal. 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