Director, Delivery & Release Management

Skills
Software As A ServiceAcceptance TestingAdoptionAmdocs CRMArtifactsEmerging TechnologiesMicrosoft Surface
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in product operations or product management within a digital product or SaaS environment with focus on delivery and release management
  • Experience leading or contributing to change management efforts and helping teams adopt new ways of working
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity and evolving processes for a team still establishing ways of working
  • Demonstrated experience owning release management and UAT processes across multiple concurrent product teams
  • Deep familiarity with Agile delivery practices and product management tooling with a track record of improving team usage
  • Ability to lead through influence rather than authority and earn trust across teams
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across Product Technology Design and go-to-market leads
  • Exceptional organizational and communication skills
  • A bias toward simplicity and designing processes people actually follow
  • Ability to travel 5-7 times a year

Nice to have

  • mission-driven
  • collaborative
  • empathetic
  • data-informed
  • detail-oriented
  • process-oriented

Day to day

  • Own the end-to-end release management process across multiple digital product lines, bringing structure and clarity to complex launches
  • Drive user acceptance testing standards and execution, ensuring releases are validated rigorously before going live
  • Partner across Product Technology and go-to-market teams to surface dependencies coordinate readiness and improve delivery predictability

Hiring process

  • Resume and application submission
  • Recruiter phone/video screen
  • Hiring manager interview
  • Performance exercise
  • Panel interview
  • Conversation with leadership
  • Reference checks