Senior Release Manager
Mentor teams, shape release strategy, and lead seamless PC & console launches—driving Paradox Interactive’s global releases.
What is the best part of game development, if not the actual release of the game to our players? Do you take pride in your project coordination skills, and your contributions to improving our ways of working? If you are ready for the freedom, trust, and ownership that our Product Launch team offers, weʼd love for you to join us in releasing new content to all our players.
Your Mission
This is a senior leadership role with portfolio-wide responsibilities, requiring both strategic oversight and direct leadership of release management practices across all Paradox Interactive products.
You will be responsible for the end-to-end release management strategy for a diverse portfolio of titles, ensuring smooth, timely, and compliant launches across PC (Steam, Epic, GOG) and console platforms (Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox). This includes advising leadership on release readiness, aligning production and publishing teams, and ensuring processes are both efficient and scalable across the organization.
In this role, you will:
Oversee multi-platform releases across the full game lifecycle, partnering with production to integrate platform, compliance, and publishing requirements from early development through post-launch.
Own Compliance & Submissions – Serve as the company’s subject matter expert for first-party processes, building relationships with Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platform partners.
Shape Process & Policy – Design, document, and implement release management workflows that scale across products, teams, and regions.
Drive Risk Management – Anticipate release challenges, implement mitigation plans, and act as the escalation point for high-priority issues.
Guide & Support – Share expertise with Release Managers, contribute to best practices, and help raise the quality and efficiency of release operations across the team.
You will operate at both a strategic and tactical level—ensuring day-to-day releases run smoothly while also improving how the company ships games over the long term.
The Skills we are searching for
5+ years of experience in release management, production, or equivalent roles in the games industry, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead capacity.
Proven track record of releasing and publishing at least one base game on multiple platforms, including at least one console release.
Deep understanding of the full game development lifecycle and its integration with publishing workflows. Extensive knowledge of first-party submission and certification processes for Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms.
Strong project management skills with experience using tools such as JIRA and partner portals. Experience leading and mentoring other release managers or production staff.
Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
On a personal level, you are an experienced leader who can manage complexity across multiple teams, platforms, and timelines. You are comfortable advising senior stakeholders, setting strategic priorities, and ensuring operational excellence in every release.
In this role, you’ll work across a diverse portfolio, influence how we release games globally, and be trusted with real ownership over processes that shape the player experience.
- Department
- Product Launch & Publishing Production
- Role
- Release Manager
- Locations
- Stockholm, Sweden
Our Culture
At Paradox, we place great emphasis on the value we create for our players, the trust we place in one another and our goal of making games that our players love to play forever.
We try to proactively solve the challenges of a rapidly changing industry, while always keeping in mind the longevity of our games and long-term perspective of our business strategy.
We focus less on job titles and more on the ideas, skills and attitude that every member of our small, autonomous teams brings to the table. We believe that helps us make each other better, and help realize our goals.
To get a fuller picture of how it’s like to work at Paradox, we invite you to watch the below video.
Stockholm, Sweden
About Paradox Interactive
Today, Paradox consists of both publishing and internal game development. We have a broad portfolio of games and own the most important brands, including Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Prison Architect, Victoria, Age of Wonders and the World of Darkness catalog of brands.
Since 2004, the company has published its games all over the world, initially through physical distribution but primarily in digital channels after 2006. Paradox games are developed primarily for PC and console platforms, but the company also releases games on mobile. The largest markets today include the US, UK, China, Germany, France and Scandinavia. In total, Paradox games have over five million players each month.
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