Release Manager, Product Development
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AgileJiraCI/CDDevOps
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or a related field
- Proven experience working in Product Development environments
- Experience supporting SaaS-based software products
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and modern SDLC practices
- Hands-on experience using Jira for planning, tracking, and release coordination
- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and DevOps collaboration models
- Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills
- Experience working in health technology or regulated software environments (Preferred)
- Prior ownership of release management for multi-team or multi-product portfolios (Preferred)
- Experience with feature flag and release management tools (e.g., LaunchDarkly) (Preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through high-pressure deployment schedules (Preferred)
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset (Preferred)
- Experience using and enabling agentic AI capabilities within the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) (Preferred)
- Familiarity with applying AI-driven automation to improve release quality, reduce manual effort, accelerate feedback loops, and support scalable delivery practices (Preferred)
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain release calendars across product development portfolio.
- Define release scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate planning across development, testing, and deployment phases.
- Act as the primary point of contact for release execution across Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps.
- Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and stakeholder communications.
- Ensure testing standards, acceptance criteria, and quality gates are consistently applied.
- Manage production deployments schedules, including coordination of release windows and sequencing.
- Identify, track, and mitigate risks that could impact release timelines or quality.
- Partner with DevOps on release automation practices and ensure effective use of CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Client Success, and GTM teams to support the execution of early adopter and limited-release programs.
- Monitor post-release performance and stability.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of release management, tooling, and governance.
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