Release Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage the PayIt Outdoors release schedule.

• Collaborate with clients, engineering, DBE, product management, operations, development, and quality assurance teams.

• Plan and execute hotfixes and scheduled releases.

• Define the scope and objectives of releases.

• Oversee the complete release process, including User Acceptance and Production deployments as well as rollback plans.

• Organize and conduct release reviews.

• Ensure that all necessary work is included in the releases.

• Monitor branches and ensure merges take place after sprints.

• Communicate release schedules, status updates, and potential risks to stakeholders.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of release processes, configurations, dependencies, issues, and resolutions.

• Identify and mitigate risks that may impact software releases.

• Establish and enforce processes for change control and release management.

• Oversee the PayIt Outdoors incident response lifecycle, ensuring cross-functional coordination, resolution validation, closure, and process metrics.

• Design, build, and maintain Jira workflows, issue types, field configurations, permission schemes, automation rules, integrations, project settings, access controls, user roles, and boards.

⛳️ Requirements

• High integrity, drive, determination, strong aptitude, and team-oriented mindset.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and align business objectives, project aims, and deliverables.

• Experience or capability in software release planning, deployment, rollback plans, hotfixes, and change control.

• Understanding of User Acceptance and Production deployment activities.

• Ability to monitor branches and ensure post-sprint merges.

• Skill in identifying and mitigating risks associated with software releases.

• Capability to manage incident response lifecycles.

• Proficiency in Jira administration, including custom workflows, issue types, field configurations, permission schemes, automation rules, integrations, project settings, access control, user roles, and board configurations.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or authorized to work for any U.S. employer without sponsorship, or a Canadian citizen or authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship.

• Ability to uphold confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company, client, and citizen data.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus pay.

• Competitive salaries.

• Excellent benefits.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Corporate volunteer program.

• Resources necessary to perform at your best.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.