Sr. Development Manager, LiveOps QA
Scopely · Barcelona, Spain · 4mo ago
Scopely is seeking a Senior Development Manager to join our Barcelona studio as a key driving force within our Central Studio Operations team.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
Our Central Studio Operations provides shared operational support, processes, and resources that help Scopely’s game studios work efficiently.
It coordinates cross-functional teams and enables the successful development, launch, and ongoing operation of games.
What You’ll Do
You will act as an internal driver and strategic partner to our game studios. Drawing on deep, hands-on experience in the LiveOps lifecycle, you will lead the design and deployment of our global LiveOps Quality OS. You will ensure every event, campaign, and content update, from initial production and testing to live deployment and post-launch monitoring, gets the attention it needs from a Quality Assurance perspective and meets the highest bar for player experience, stability, and performance.
The ideal candidate is an operational mastermind who thrives on influence without authority. You are equally comfortable talking dev pipelines with engineers, discussing risk mitigation with LiveOps and Product leaders, and driving strategic alignment with external vendors.
- Drive Strategic Alignment: Partner directly with Game Team Leadership and Executive Producers to align release practices and quality standards with Scopely’s global business objectives
- End-to-End LiveOps Quality & Performance: Review the operational rigor of live service releases. Ensure robust processes are in place across the full LiveOps lifecycle (from campaign/event configuration and QA/testing to live deployment, telemetry validation, and real-time performance monitoring)
- Architect the Release OS: Define, iterate, and champion the adoption of standardized, modern release frameworks and deployment processes across all titles. Focus heavily on risk mitigation, live-environment stability, and real-time incident monitoring to prevent player-impacting downtime
- Influence Without Authority: Act as a central change agent, guiding cross-functional studio teams across global locations to adopt modern quality operations principles
- Optimize External Partnerships: Manage strategic relationships with trusted external QA and development partners. Design service level agreements and workflows to ensure external teams operate as seamless, high-performing extensions of our studios
- Lead Modernization & AI Initiatives: Champion the strategic integration of automation, AI-driven testing, and modern tooling into the studio release pipelines to aggressively drive down time-to-market
- Risk & Root Cause Analysis: Conduct continuous post-mortems and root-cause analyses on release bottlenecks, turning data insights into actionable, studio-wide process improvements
- Advocate for Operational Excellence: Act as the primary spokesperson for central operations, clearly communicating release risks, deployment health metrics, and strategic improvements to executive stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
- LiveOps & Games Experience: Proven track record of managing live-service games on mobile. Strong hands-on experience leading campaigns and events through the entire lifecycle, from initial concept and implementation to testing, release, and live performance monitoring.
- The Power of Influence: A proven track record of driving massive process changes and operational improvements across matrixed organizations without direct line-management authority.
- Production & Operations Acumen: Strong background in Technical Program Management, Release Engineering, or Technical Production. You understand CI/CD pipelines, build distribution, and deployment risks.
- Vendor & Partner Management: Extensive experience collaborating with, evaluating, and maximizing the value of large-scale external partners and vendors.
- Systems Thinking: The ability to look at a highly complex, multi-studio ecosystem, identify systemic inefficiencies, and engineer elegant, scalable solutions.
- Master Communicator: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical risks into clear, business-focused narratives for executive leadership.
- LiveOps Backends & Remote Config: Hands-on experience with systems like Azure PlayFab, Unity Gaming Services, Firebase, or proprietary internal LiveOps dashboards desirable.
- Analytics & BI Tools: Proficiency with product analytics platforms (Amplitude, Mixpanel, or GameAnalytics) and BI visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, or Excel/Google Sheets) desirable.
- Production & Operations: Experience managing workflows in JIRA and using build distribution tools (TestFlight, Google Play Console, Firebase App Distribution) desirable.
- Degree level education or equivalent experience.
- Passion for mobile and console/PC games, with proven experience working on games as a live service.
- Experience with LiveOps QA
- Ability to generate impact and make progress through influence
- Experience managing a portfolio of projects or in a central capacity
- Proven ability to oversee and manage projects with complex setups
- Strong accountability in observing deadlines and engagements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a game development environment with proven experience in management.
- Very strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbally) and ability to collaborate with senior management
- Ability to identify risks and changes needed and to execute solutions, with appropriate sense of urgency.
- Strong and demonstrated knowledge of project management, software development methodologies, QA best known practices
- Proficient with setting up and navigating through JIRA, TestRail, Google Docs, Google Sheets/Excel, and a build distribution management system
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
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