Manager, Release Management
Full-time
Dayforce
Role Description
The Manager, Release Management leads the people, practices, and cross-functional coordination required to deliver reliable, predictable, and well-governed software releases to our customers.
- Leads a team of Release Managers and partners closely with Product Management, Application Development, Cloud Infrastructure and Operations, Support, Cybersecurity, and other stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Accountable for ensuring that release contents are complete and accurate, risks and dependencies are understood, and release-readiness expectations are consistently applied.
- Builds an environment where Release Managers take ownership, collaborate effectively, and continuously improve how work gets done.
- Uses modern automation and AI-enabled practices to improve release quality, efficiency, and predictability.
- Must understand modern software delivery practices to lead release decisions, assess delivery risk, and influence stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Experience leading and developing a high-performing release management team responsible for monolithic and microservices releases.
- Experience establishing clear operating practices, performance expectations, and success measures for a release management function.
- Experience overseeing release planning and coordination across products and services.
- Experience leading release-readiness and Go/No-Go governance.
- Experience managing release risks, exceptions, decisions, reporting, documentation, and audit evidence.
- Experience improving release quality and predictability through root-cause analysis and automation.
Requirements
- Experience working in Agile, Lean, DevOps, or product operating models.
- Familiarity with ITIL, change enablement, or other IT service management frameworks.
- Experience managing releases across a combination of cloud-native services, microservices, platform components, and large enterprise applications.
- Experience improving or automating release controls, readiness checks, reporting, or deployment workflows.
- Experience supporting regulated, audited, or compliance-sensitive software delivery environments.
- Experience introducing AI-assisted tools or workflows within an operational, delivery, or program management function.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- 401k plan (plus match).
- Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Unlimited Time Away From Work.
- 10 paid US holidays.
- Up to 80 hours of paid sick time.
- 17 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Opportunities for community impact, including volunteer days and charity initiatives.
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