Product Release Mgr

• A release manager is responsible for the release management process, from start to finish, and is the main coordinator for the process. He/She is part of defining the releases scope, schedule, and strategy, and coordinates activities across teams such as planning, development, testing, business metrics, and operations.
• A release manager will be detail-oriented, organized, and have a strategic mindset. He/she should know about both software development lifecycle and operations and be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• The release managers responsibilities include:
• Planning: Defining the releases strategy, scope, schedule, and acceptance criteria
• Managing: Develop and manage release management plans, policies, procedures, and templates and institutionalization them across the unit
• Coordinating: Managing schedules to satisfy interdependencies, and planning and communicating all required tasks
• Monitoring: Measuring and monitoring the progress of product releases & patches till deployments
• Communicating: Communicating key product delivery commitments, plans, changes, and requirements to teams
• Risk mitigation: Managing risks that may affect release scope.
• Conflict Management: Minimize bottleneck & lead conflicts to resolutions.
• Governance and Reporting: Plan and conduct regular cadence to keep team and objective aligned to ensure successful on-time & on-budget releases.
• Mentoring: Influences and inspires team to adopt processes, practices, and tools
• Improving: Drive continuous improvements and efficiency
• Aligning: Reverse incorporation of customer CRs with roadmap releases
• Technical/Functional Competencies
• Demonstrates strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias toward data-based decision-making.
• Experience in Agile software development lifecycle implementation.
• Experience in Gitlab, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, Google Cloud, feature toggles, and branch handling.
• Experience in Tools administration, configuration, reports, and dashboards like Jira, Digite, Confluence, AHA, etc.
• Strong Knowledge of MS Office, Microsoft Excel, Word, Visio, and Powerpoint

Behavioural Competencies

• Takes personal ownership and accountability.
• Influences and inspires others.
• Strong Negotiating and networking skills
• Being dynamic and self-motivated
• Being persistent and resilient