Sr Release Manager

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

As a Sr Release Manager, you will be an integral part of the team that enables *** to bring its world-class products and experiences to market. You will work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops. In true *** fashion, you will partner closely with teams including program, product, engineering, release engineering, and quality to not only execute releases, but continually improve process, achieve efficiencies, and deliver a quality product timely.



WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

The Sr Release Manager will work alongside stakeholders to collaborate on direction, strategy, planning, prioritization, and ongoing drive of the global change & release framework. The Sr Release Manager is also responsible for driving operational strategies, including:



Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies

Manage all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment

Develop risk management and contingency planning for releases of any size

Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness

Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal

Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production

Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework

Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on Product, release cadence, delivery and support requirements

Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions

Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders

Manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders

Participate in Capability Stand Ups and PI Planning sessions to determine and plan for upcoming release Product.

Identify and drive retrospective items to completion.



WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?



You will partner with Global Technology teams to cultivate collaboration, alignment and integrated planning and execution across all functions. You will have close partnership with the Portfolio, Product, Technology and Strategy functions. You will work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on dependencies for cross-functional deployments.

CRITICAL SKILLS



Functional expertise in driving change and delivering high quality results.

Experience with Commerce and Mobile Commerce platforms.

Demonstrable experience operating in a complex, federated global organization with a geographically dispersed team.

Experience improving CI/CD tools integration and release operations ensuring quality deployments.

Experience at developing risk management and contingency planning for production changes

Successful track record of applying operational readiness techniques to complex feature implementations

Successful track record of partnership across organizations to build trust and achieve shared goals.

Good communications and presentation skills. Able to communicate sophisticated and technical issues effectively and concisely to leadership.

High professional standards and expectations for self and others.

Professional stature and gravitas to collaborate with and influence team members with credibility and confidence.



WHAT YOU BRING TO ***



Bachelor s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field; 2+ additional years of professional experience in lieu of a degree

A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies, and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery, SAFE, ITIL)

Experience working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle

Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and influence others, negotiate during situational conflict, and establish the best forward path in the face of competing points of view.

Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented matrixed environment.

Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow

Comments for Suppliers: Notes:

Looking for a Sr Release Manager. They will work on integrating Ai to the *** and Sneakers App, the front line to *** Consumers.

Please note this role will be affected by DTL.



REQUIRED:

Experience in eCommerce, Mobile apps, Dotcoms

Experience with mobile play store deployments - apple and google playstore, knows how to navigate that process, and can pull stats from that tool ie: crash rejection rate

Technical*** Product, and Program experience



Jira and sprint planning



IDEAL CANDIDATE:

ServiceNow, Confluence

Can take very complex problems and convert it to something consumable for all stakeholders

Adaptable to agile environment, Take initiative







Dealbreakers:

Can t come from a waterfall/SAP environment

No finance or supply chain backgrounds



Team:

Team of release managers, engineers, product managers over 11 capabilities total