Release Manager

We are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our team. The Delivery Manager will be responsible for ensuring that our releases are delivered on-time with quality, and that our software delivery systems support the continuous flow of work through the software lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering high-quality products, experience in project management and delivery, and a strong ability to work with cross-functional teams. The Delivery Manager will be an individual contributor who brings operational leadership, project management and coordination to a team of developers and QA engineers.

• Develop and manage release schedules
• Oversee and coordinate release cycle timelines and milestones
• Identify opportunities for improving our software delivery systems and help coordinate cross-team collaboration to implement those improvement
• Manage delivery risks and issues, and take corrective action
• Facilitate decisions about changes to release plans, and in response to unexpected events affecting release schedules or processes
• Communicate delivery status, risks, and issues to stakeholders
• Coordinate monitoring of production issues and issue response processes
• Manage delivery metric collection, ensuring accuracy and currency
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to ensure that applications being delivered are validated and meet customer requirements
• Collaborate with delivery team engineers to ensure day to day priorities are correctly set, aligned on and executed
• Organize processes for gathering and triaging requests from teams who are blocked in delivering their work