Senior Director Release Management

We are looking for a strategic and transformation-focused Head of Release Management to modernize the release ecosystem across Product and Technology. This role will lead the shift from manual process-heavy release governance to a modern data-driven and platform-enabled model where release safety compliance and operational readiness are embedded directly into engineering workflows deployment pipelines and platform capabilities.

The successful candidate will define the long-term release strategy across multiple release types including planned product releases service updates emergency and security releases platform releases customer onboarding releases and future AI/model releases. They will establish risk-based guardrails policy-as-code automated compliance checks release risk scoring automated evidence collection and progressive deployment controls to reduce reliance on manual approvals and governance forums.

This role will also shape environment strategy release intelligence and engineering enablement across Product and Technology. Working closely with Platform Engineering DevOps Security Product Quality Cloud Operations and engineering leadership the Head of Release Management will drive the adoption of automated readiness checks environment observability telemetry-led insights predictive risk management and modern deployment practices.

A key part of the role is building a release management capability that acts as an enablement and transformation function rather than a coordination gate. The role will lead coach and develop the team create investment cases and transformation roadmaps and promote a culture of evidence-based decision making shared ownership progressive delivery and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and execute the release ecosystem strategy across Product and Technology.
• Embed release controls into developer workflows deployment pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Establish automated auditable and risk-based controls including policy-as-code automated compliance checks and release risk scoring.
• Define differentiated release models for product service emergency security platform customer onboarding and AI/model releases.
• Lead release-led customer onboarding governance including readiness environment validation support readiness and post-onboarding assurance.
• Shape AI-native release management practices for AI-generated code agentic workflows prompts models and knowledge assets.
• Own or co-own environment strategy shared environment governance readiness utilization and observability.
• Build release intelligence capabilities using telemetry operational data and AI to predict deployment risks and readiness gaps.
• Drive engineering enablement by helping teams deploy and onboard customers safely reliably and independently.
• Lead and develop a release management function focused on transformation automation and continuous improvement.
• Build investment cases and transformation roadmaps to secure the tooling automation telemetry and platform capabilities required to modernize release management.

Qualifications :

• 10 years of experience in software delivery release management DevOps SRE platform engineering cloud operations engineering program management or engineering leadership.
• Proven track record modernizing release deployment or operational governance models across complex product platform or service environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD progressive delivery feature flags deployment automation policy-as-code automated compliance observability SRE principles and modern engineering practices.
• Experience defining release approaches for planned emergency security platform service and out-of-band releases.
• Experience with environment strategy shared environment governance test environment utilization customer onboarding readiness environment observability and ephemeral or on-demand environments.
• Experience improving customer onboarding production readiness service transition or customer activation processes in a cloud SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Ability to use data telemetry dashboards predictive insights or AI to improve release risk management deployment reliability and engineering productivity.
• Experience building investment cases and transformation proposals to secure funding for tooling automation platform capability environment improvements or operating model change.
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills with the ability to influence Product Engineering Platform Security Operations Support and executive stakeholders.
• Proven change management capability with experience moving teams from traditional governance models to modern platform-enabled and evidence-based release practices.
• Strategic transformation leader who is a systems thinker data-driven decision maker AI-aware security-conscious and passionate about engineering enablement.

Additional Information :

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community we drive innovation strengthen connections and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time