Blizzard Entertainment
Associate Manager, Release Management
Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, California, United States, 92713
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Associate Manager, Release Management
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At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes, including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences. Hard work, iteration, and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision.
Job Summary The Associate Manager, Release Management helps manage a team that will collaborate with internal and external partners to set up bundles, promotions, and events, ensuring the timely delivery of all necessary assets. Responsibilities include preparing and submitting builds, downloadable content, and metadata to first parties and proactively addressing any issues that may arise during the approval process. Additionally, they will configure and release products and updates, execute quality control checks, and provide development teams with expert technical guidance and platform support. They understand and help oversee submission activities and participate in or lead product development meetings. They have mastered the fundamental submission process, collaborating with stakeholders to meet objectives. Additionally, they play a key role in developing their team, championing best practices, and driving long‑term vision for quality assurance.
What You Bring To The Table
Lead a team for submissions, ensuring the quality of all deliverables, workflows, and relationships
Support in leading the configuration and release of products and updates to development and live environments for first‑party submissions and releases, collaborating with internal and external partners
Ensure the team prepares and submits bundles, promotions, events, downloadable content, metadata, and other submission activities to first parties
Execute and document quality control checks for submissions and releases
Process, verify, and deliver builds to quality assurance teams across all supported platforms
Keep stakeholders informed on all first‑party policies and process changes
Maintain an archive of all final assets and supplemental materials submitted to first parties
Host test closure activities, such as testware evaluation, knowledge transfer, and retrospectives
Create, monitor, and control metrics impacting product and team quality, analyzing product quality and usability, associated system limitations, and reporting on risk
Lead and support projects and initiatives with regional teams, cross‑functional partners, and QA teams
Provide leadership, support and guidance to the assigned team, ensuring their performance is managed effectively and fostering a productive, positive, collaborative work culture
Champion efforts that build synergy, trust, collaboration, and inclusivity within the organization. Own and manage relationships with key partners, resources, colleagues, and leaders ensuring transparency around critical decisions and trade‑offs
Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements
Minimum 6 years of Quality Assurance, first‑party submission experience or a similar role
Minimum 2 years of experience leading teams or projects via direct or indirect leadership
Knowledge & Skills
High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s Degree in a related field preferred
Ability to maintain scripts to automate manual repetitive tasks
Strong knowledge of all first‑party submission tools and platforms
Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), specifically QA processes in agile and waterfall development environments
Proven ability to analyze and interpret data/workflows, recognize critical issues, and raise concerns
Excellent written and verbal communication, planning, organization, and time management skills
Extra Points
Technical requirements testing experience (TRC, XR, App Store Review Guidelines, etc.)
Certifications: PMP, Scrum Master and/or Product Owner, ISTQB
Scripting or software tool creation experience. White box testing experience
Coding Knowledge: XML / HTML, JavaScript, Python, Java, C / C++ / C#, SQL
High level of gaming knowledge and/or skill
Passion for Blizzard’s line of products and services
Our World Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world’s largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet! Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment.
Our Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
If the company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
Equal Opportunity Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com.
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Associate Manager, Release Management
role at
Blizzard Entertainment
At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes, including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences. Hard work, iteration, and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision.
Job Summary The Associate Manager, Release Management helps manage a team that will collaborate with internal and external partners to set up bundles, promotions, and events, ensuring the timely delivery of all necessary assets. Responsibilities include preparing and submitting builds, downloadable content, and metadata to first parties and proactively addressing any issues that may arise during the approval process. Additionally, they will configure and release products and updates, execute quality control checks, and provide development teams with expert technical guidance and platform support. They understand and help oversee submission activities and participate in or lead product development meetings. They have mastered the fundamental submission process, collaborating with stakeholders to meet objectives. Additionally, they play a key role in developing their team, championing best practices, and driving long‑term vision for quality assurance.
What You Bring To The Table
Lead a team for submissions, ensuring the quality of all deliverables, workflows, and relationships
Support in leading the configuration and release of products and updates to development and live environments for first‑party submissions and releases, collaborating with internal and external partners
Ensure the team prepares and submits bundles, promotions, events, downloadable content, metadata, and other submission activities to first parties
Execute and document quality control checks for submissions and releases
Process, verify, and deliver builds to quality assurance teams across all supported platforms
Keep stakeholders informed on all first‑party policies and process changes
Maintain an archive of all final assets and supplemental materials submitted to first parties
Host test closure activities, such as testware evaluation, knowledge transfer, and retrospectives
Create, monitor, and control metrics impacting product and team quality, analyzing product quality and usability, associated system limitations, and reporting on risk
Lead and support projects and initiatives with regional teams, cross‑functional partners, and QA teams
Provide leadership, support and guidance to the assigned team, ensuring their performance is managed effectively and fostering a productive, positive, collaborative work culture
Champion efforts that build synergy, trust, collaboration, and inclusivity within the organization. Own and manage relationships with key partners, resources, colleagues, and leaders ensuring transparency around critical decisions and trade‑offs
Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements
Minimum 6 years of Quality Assurance, first‑party submission experience or a similar role
Minimum 2 years of experience leading teams or projects via direct or indirect leadership
Knowledge & Skills
High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s Degree in a related field preferred
Ability to maintain scripts to automate manual repetitive tasks
Strong knowledge of all first‑party submission tools and platforms
Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), specifically QA processes in agile and waterfall development environments
Proven ability to analyze and interpret data/workflows, recognize critical issues, and raise concerns
Excellent written and verbal communication, planning, organization, and time management skills
Extra Points
Technical requirements testing experience (TRC, XR, App Store Review Guidelines, etc.)
Certifications: PMP, Scrum Master and/or Product Owner, ISTQB
Scripting or software tool creation experience. White box testing experience
Coding Knowledge: XML / HTML, JavaScript, Python, Java, C / C++ / C#, SQL
High level of gaming knowledge and/or skill
Passion for Blizzard’s line of products and services
Our World Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world’s largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet! Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment.
Our Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
If the company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
Equal Opportunity Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com.
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