Release Manager
ClubWPT Gold
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Redwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Own the release cadence
- Run the core release ceremonies: code freeze standups, go or no go, launch war rooms, and post release reviews
- Keep release pages, calendars, and status in Confluence and JIRA current and easy to consume
- Manage code freeze and scope changes
- Track work targeting each release and flag scope risk early
- Log code freeze breaks and other exceptions, including ticket, rationale, and approver
- Help product and engineering leads see and discuss the tradeoffs they are making
- Act as producer for release week
- Coordinate with pod producers, QA, and engineering so they show up with the right inputs at the right time
- Capture decisions, risks, and follow ups from release meetings and war rooms
- Make sure nothing falls between pods during the final stretch
- Lead the product incident process
- Triage new P0 and P1 issues in the incident channel, clarify severity and impact, and name an incident lead
- Keep a short timeline and regular updates while the incident is active
- Schedule and run brief post incident reviews, and track follow up work in JIRA
- Surface patterns and improve the system
- Use release logs, freeze breaks, incidents, and postmortems to highlight recurring themes
- Propose simple changes to checklists, guardrails, and communication that reduce repeat issues over time
Requirements
- 2-4 years of experience in release management, technical project management, SRE / DevOps coordination, or a similar role supporting software teams
- Proven experience running recurring operational ceremonies and keeping them on track
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across multiple teams and time zones
- Comfortable nudging senior leaders and engineers with clear, factual reminders of what was agreed and by when
- Clear written communication in Slack, Confluence, and JIRA, especially under time pressure
- Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence, and experience working closely with engineering and QA teams
Benefits
- Own a critical function
- See your impact quickly
- Work with a small, senior team
- Grow with the company
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
release managementtechnical project managementSREDevOps coordinationincident managementscope managementrisk managementoperational ceremoniespostmortem analysischecklist improvement
Soft skills
organizational skillsattention to detailcommunicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingtime managementadaptabilityclarity under pressurenudging senior leaders