Senior Manager, Release Management

Senior Manager, Release Management

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What will you do?

As a Senior Manager, Release Management, you will play a key leadership position to ensure smooth, efficient, and high-quality software delivery, enabling business agility and customer satisfaction.

• Develop and implement effective change and release management strategies, driving continuous improvement and innovation in processes.
• Lead and manage a team of change and release management professionals.
• Act as a liaison between the change and release management team and other departments.
• Engage in any post release issues.

You will be co-located with product teams, with possible occasional travel.

What do you need to succeed?

Accountabilities:

Strategic Release Planning:

• Develop and maintain a release management strategy aligned with business and technical priorities.
• Define & communicate release schedules, dependencies, milestones across teams.

Release Coordination and Execution:

• Act as central authority for go-live.
• Manage E2E release processes, from initial planning through production deployment.
• Ensure adherence to change management processes, risk assessments, and compliance requirements.
• Enforce testing standards and monitor defect resolution.
• Oversee hotfixes, emergency patches, and scheduled updates to maintain system stability and business continuity.

Metrics and Reporting:

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as release success rate, lead time, deployment frequency, and mean time to recovery (MTTR), defect density.
• Provide executive-level reporting on release performance, risks, and post-release outcomes.

Team Leadership:

• Build and mentor a high-performing release management team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation within the release management function 

Responsibilities:

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Act as the central point of contact for release management across product, QA, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to prioritize release scope and resolve conflicts or bottlenecks.
• Change requests: analyze changes & impact and incorporate into release plan.
• Deployment coordination: Plan deployment activities; coordinate with broader org

Continuous Improvement:

• Optimize & automate release processes to enhance delivery speed and reduce risks.
• Identify gaps in the current process and implement improvements to achieve high release reliability and efficiency.
• Lead initiatives related to improvements in environments, live application management (e.g. AIOps), and support roll out of DevSecOps and QA initiatives

Background & Competencies

• 10+ years of technology experience
• 3-5 years’ experience as Release Manager
• Experience working with agile release cycles.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and release automation tools
• Release management experience across multiple products / platforms and geographical areas.

What do we offer you?

At VF, we know you expect as much from us as we do from you. That is why we make a commitment to support and grow our people. We offer extensive development and growth opportunities for your current and future positions, a competitive compensation package, and a strong benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

Our commitment extends beyond this and into your daily work life. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture based on respect, connection, and authenticity. Our focus on DEI is at the foundation of who we are and what we do.

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