Why join Nextech?
We are a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions.
We’re committed to hiring and retaining talent, which is why we invest in our employees through competitive pay, a generous bonus structure, great healthcare, a comprehensive wellness program, and many other benefits.
If you are a software engineer, finance or accounting professional, customer support specialist, or a business development expert with a passion for healthcare technology (just to name a few), we want to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics are encouraged to apply. If you are a candidate in need of assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact
talent@nextech.com.
Job Summary
The Release Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of software releases across the Product Development organization. This role serves as the central point of accountability for release execution, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high quality, reliable software on predictable timelines.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in SaaS based product development environments, applies Agile best practices, and excels at orchestrating cross functional teams through complex release cycles. Health technology experience is strongly preferred, given the importance of quality, reliability, and compliance in our products.
All activities must be in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA, and other regulations, as appropriate.
Essential Functions:
Release Planning & Scheduling
Own and maintain the portfolio-wide release calendar. Define scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines. Coordinate planning across product, development, testing, and deployment phases to keep commitments realistic and transparent. t.
Cross‑Functional Coordination & Communication
Serve as the primary point of contact for release execution across Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps. Run release readiness reviews, partners on go/no-go decisions, and own stakeholder communications. Keep teams aligned on expectations, risks, and delivery commitments.
Quality Assurance (QA) Oversight
Manage production deployments schedules, including coordination of release windows and sequencing. Ensure rollback and contingency plans are defined and tested. Support incident response and resolution during release activities as needed.
Deployment Management
Manage production deployments schedules, including coordination of release windows and sequencing. Ensure rollback and contingency plans are defined and tested. Support incident response and resolution during release activities as needed.
Risk Management
Identify, track, and mitigate risks that could impact release timelines or quality.
Work proactively with stakeholders to resolve issues and escalate blockers.
Drive continuous improvement of release processes to reduce risk over time.
CI/CD Optimization
Partner with DevOps to improve release automation, pipeline reliability, repeatability, and deployment speed. Promotes best practices for feature flagging and controlled rollouts (e.g., LaunchDarkly .
Early Adopter Program Management & Scaling
Partner with internal stakeholders to execute early adopter release programs. Coordinate recruitment, planning, feature enablement, and deployment sequencing for EA cohorts. Enforce controlled rollout practices — feature flagging, access management, rollback readiness, and drive smooth EA-to-GA transitions. Help define and improve scalable processes, tooling, and governance to support growth of early adopter programs without increasing release risk. Contribute to continuous improvement of early access frameworks to balance speed, quality, and client experience.
Post-Release Monitoring & Improvement
Monitor post-release performance and stability. Turn signals from the field into ongoing improvements in release management, tooling, and governance.
Agentic AI Adoption
Champion AI-driven planning, testing, release validation, and operational automation across the PDLC. Promotes adoption of agentic AI to compress cycle time, raise quality, and scale delivery.