Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. We have a longstanding commitment to Responsible Gaming (RG) that is engrained within our core business and the products we offer to customers and players worldwide. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.
Release Planning & Coordination
- Own the release calendar for the Digital Draw Games portfolio, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps, marketing campaigns, and regulatory timelines.
- Coordinate and releases across engineering, QA, product management, design, compliance, and operations.
- Ensure game achieve a release ready state tailored to each market and ensure that customer promise is fulfilled or proactively adjusted according to feasibility
- Facilitate release planning sessions, stand-ups, and go/no-go meetings.
Deployment Management
- Ensure successful deployment of games, updates, and platform enhancements across multiple environments (dev, test, staging, production).
- Own the release calendar per market/customer and become single point of contact around release readiness for ongoing and upcoming games.
- Define and maintain standardised release processes, templates, and checklists.
- Partner with DevOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines for game delivery.
Quality & Risk Management
- Monitor readiness criteria, test completion, and defect management to guarantee release quality.
- Conduct risk assessments and mitigation planning for each release.
- Ensure rollback procedures, contingency plans, and incident responses are in place.
Compliance & Regulatory Alignment
- Work closely with legal and compliance teams to ensure all releases meet required lottery regulations, security standards, and jurisdictional controls.
- Manage audit trails, documentation, and approvals for regulators.
Stakeholder Communication
- Act as the central point of contact for all release-related updates, risks, blockers, and timelines.
- Provide clear, proactive communication to internal teams and external partners.
- Produce weekly and monthly release reports and post-release retrospectives.
Process Improvement
- Analyse release performance metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Advocate for automation, efficiency, and best-practice workflows across game development and release teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Certifications in Release Management, Agile, or Project Management.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers or studios.
- Experience with release management, software deployment, or live operations (gaming, lottery, or fintech preferred).
- Understanding of CI/CD, Git, build processes, and deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Knowledge of QA methodologies and tools.
- Experience working in regulated gaming, iLottery, instant win games, or iGaming.
- Understanding of RNG-based game development and certification processes.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to manage pressure, tight deadlines, and shifting priorities.
- Problem-solving mindset with meticulous attention to detail.
- Leading Complexity
- Leading People
- Leading the Business
- Leading Self
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This information reflects Brightstar Lottery’s good-faith estimate of compensation for this position at the time of publication. Actual compensation will be determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and internal compensation policies. Factors that we consider include, but are not limited to, role, career level, performance, skills, level of expertise, experience, location, market competitiveness, and internal equity. The estimated starting compensation range is €42,859 – €54,398. The Company will comply with all local pay requirements and collective bargaining agreements, where applicable.
In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for an annual performance-based bonus with a set target (10% of salary) aligned with individual and company performance. Eligibility and payout may be prorated based on date of hire and service during the performance period or sales commission.
Other Benefits Offered:
- Paid time off
- Health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance
- Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
- Variety of well-being programs
- Retirement benefits including Supplementary Pension
- Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role
- Mobility Benefits
- Meal Vouchers
This position is governed by collective bargaining agreement, which regulates the main terms and conditions of employment, including minimum salary levels, classification, working hours, leave, and other employment rights.
Our hiring process is conducted in line with principles of pay transparency and equal pay. We do not request or rely on candidates’ salary history during the selection process.
All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.
