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Working for Hooded Horse

Hooded Horse is a fast-growing publisher of quality strategy, simulation, and role-playing games. We’re currently a small, tight-knit team with big plans for 2025 and beyond.

Our team is fully remote and spread across the globe. Our team operates flexibly across time zones, as do most of our devs, but we tend to primarily focus on US and Europe work hours. Our work hours are ultimately flexible; we ask you to be available when needed, but also respect you as a professional to decide when to work to get the job done.

We have an amazing set of upcoming and existing titles for you to work on. Our development partners are passionate about their work and so are we!

Senior Release Manager

Department: Production
Reports to: Chief Product Officer

The Role

We’re looking for an organized, communicative, and personable Senior Release Manager to join our team of two existing Release Managers, and help support our exciting and ambitious release portfolio.

We want you to work with our production team to support release management operations as we expand towards consoles and other platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Build processes for Release Management from the ground up – from PC platforms like Steam, GOG and Epic,  to the console platforms PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.
• Create and maintain our store pages in collaboration with relevant teams, such as platform partners, Production, Marketing, and Localization.
• Track and communicate Release Management timelines across the portfolio, to keep our studios and wider company continuously aligned.
• Collaborate with studios and first parties to establish submission timelines and certification requirements across the portfolio.
• Manage and coordinate the build submission process between studios and platform partners.
• Where necessary, manage the age rating process between studios and age rating classification partners.
• Manage user accounts across the organization for all partner platforms.

Your Background

• 3+ years of experience in release management in the games industry, specifically PC and console platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of Steamworks (the Steam partner backend).
• Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Center, PlayStation Partners, Nintendo Developer Portal, and Epic Developer Portal.
• Experience with physical releases is a positive, but not required.
• Very detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Excellent and proactive communicator with good interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

How to Apply

Please apply by emailing recruiting@hoodedhorse.com with the subject line “Senior Release Manager” and include your resume as an attachment.

Within the email, we would love a paragraph telling us about one title you are proud to have overseen the release of.

Get in Touch

We are growing rapidly. Please message recruiting@hoodedhorse.com for a general application including your resume and a brief description of what roles you’re interested in or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn for updates on job openings.