In this role you are expected to:
- Drive the end-to-end release process - for multiple planned releases, and unplanned hotfix releases in advance of GA across customer and product base;
- Helps align release calendar to ensure overlaps are minimized to ensure rapid deployments with high quality;
- Assist the teams in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence;
- Create an environment whereby the teams are informed and in agreement on delivery goals, complex dependencies, and exception processes;
- In partnership with multiple leaders, track and communicate to Stakeholders information such as release calendar, risks and risk mitigation strategies, impediments, and status;
- Drive end-to-end release workflows and steps - to ensure on-time and effective delivery and deployment;
- Establish clear release criteria to ensure high-quality releases;
- In coordination with Managers, facilitate cross-organization coordination and collaboration to solve needs for complex testing, validation, and deployments;
- Manage risk and issues across the deployment cycles to reduce impact and frequency of occurrence;
- Actively collaborate with stakeholders and Engineering cross-functional teams to refine and improve the release process in a data-driven, solutions-oriented manner;
- Be innovative and think out of the box.
What you need to succeed in this job:
- Previous experience as Technical Release Manager in a SaaS, PaaS or Cloud environments;
- A Bachelor or Master Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar. If you do not have one but you are really good (and can show it), we still want to hear from you;
- Advanced knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
- Experience with Devops Tool suite;
- Ability to work effectively with a cross-functional team in order to complete critical tasks and initiatives;
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks at a fast pace;
- Willing to work in a fast pace company striving to be one of the best software companies in the world;
- Empathic and very good communicator, able to adjust the communication style with engineers as well as top-management.