Product Release Manager
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2 days ago
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Job Summary
What success looks like in this role:
Job Description:
The Release Manager oversees the endtoend release lifecycle for new products features and updatesfrom development through commercial launch. This role ensures production releases for products and clients are predictable operationally safe reliable and with minimal risk. The Release Manager partners closely with Program Management Office Product Management Engineering DevOps QA and Support teams to coordinate release activities mitigate risks and ensure a smooth transition from development to production and the commercial market.
Release Planning & Coordination
- Manage release schedules across multiple product lines and platforms ensuring consistency and traceability; coordinating with all stakeholders. Align crossfunctional teams on timelines deliverables and dependencies.
- Releases also include customized releases to Client environments that use a base product release but contain some customizations.
- Coordinate with DevOps to plan Infrastructure impacts
- Coordinate deployments to production or commercial distribution channels.
- Ensure postrelease validation quick issue resolution and smooth handover to support teams.
- Focus on Risk mitigation and avoid escalations
- Coordinate resource allocation and identify bottlenecks or risks that may impact release timelines.
- Ensure all release artifacts (specifications validation results documentation) are complete and approved.
- Validate that each release meets quality compliance and security standards.
- Ensure thorough test planning execution and acceptance across engineering and QA teams.
- Track and report defects risks and mitigation plans with transparency and urgency.
Stakeholder Communication
- Primary point of contact for release communications.
- Provide clear and timely updates on release status risks changes and launch criteria.
- Collaborate with Marketing Sales and Commercial teams to ensure gotomarket materials and readiness activities are completed.
Continuous Improvement
- Analyze release performance and lead postrelease reviews to identify improvement opportunities.
- Refine tools processes and automation to increase release efficiency predictability and quality.
- Influence best practices in DevOps CI/CD and release automation to accelerate delivery.
You will be successful in this role if you have:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Business or related field.
- 57 years of experience in release management for product development or software delivery.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead Production release of commercial products with multiple inter-dependent development streams
- Experience coordinating crossfunctional teams in fastpaced environments.
- Excellent communication organization and problemsolving skills.
- Familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps Git and CI/CD pipelines
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience launching products into commercial or regulated markets.
- Certification(s) such as ScrumMaster ITIL or PMP could also be a plus.
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices automation tools and release orchestration platforms.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
Unisys is a global information technology company that specializes in providing industry-focused solutions integrated with leading-edge security to clients in the government, financial services and commercial markets. Unisys offerings include security solutions, advanced data analytic ... View more
