Release Manager

Release Manager

Location: Greenwood Village, CO (On-Site)

Pay: $50-$60/hour

Schedule: Flexible 40-hour work week with occasional evening and overnight release support. This is not a standard 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM role. Release activities may require participation during scheduled maintenance windows, typically 1-2 times per week on a rotating basis.

Duration: Long term rolling contract – W2 or 1099. Multi-year initiative with projects expected to continue for at least 3 years.

Accepting applicants until October 9, 2026

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Release Manager to support a rapidly growing AI and digital platform organization responsible for delivering customer-facing capabilities at scale. The team is expanding from managing a small number of production releases to supporting dozens of customer service needs and platform enhancements, creating a significantly more complex release environment.

This is a highly visible role responsible for coordinating, organizing, and driving production releases across multiple technology teams. The Release Manager serves as the central point of coordination between Technical Program Managers, Engineering, QA, Platform Engineering, Operations, Security, and business stakeholders to ensure releases are properly planned, approved, communicated, and executed.

The ideal candidate is a strong organizer and communicator who thrives in fast-paced enterprise environments. While this is not a deeply technical engineering role, candidates must be comfortable operating in complex technology organizations, understanding technical concepts, asking the right questions, and coordinating multiple parties through critical production activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate application, platform, and production releases across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Partner with engineering teams and Technical Program Managers to understand release content, scope, risks, dependencies, and implementation plans
• Review release readiness, ensuring documentation, approvals, testing, and deployment requirements are completed
• Create and manage change tickets, release documentation, release schedules, and deployment plans
• Coordinate with Operations, Security, Platform Engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure all release requirements are met
• Track and obtain required approvals, including executive-level approvals when necessary
• Serve as the central point of contact during release execution and maintenance windows
• Facilitate release calls, monitor progress, ensure milestones are completed, and proactively address issues in real time
• Verify rollback procedures and contingency plans are documented and available
• Ensure post-deployment validation activities are completed successfully before closing releases
• Drive communication before, during, and after releases to technical and business stakeholders
• Escalate risks, blockers, and issues appropriately to leadership
• Document release outcomes, lessons learned, and process improvement opportunities
• Continuously improve release management processes, governance, and operational efficiency

What Success Looks Like

• Confidently shepherding multiple concurrent releases through our client's release process
• Coordinating numerous teams and stakeholders without losing track of critical details
• Maintaining executive presence when working with senior leaders and approval authorities
• Driving action and accountability in fast-moving situations
• Successfully managing production releases with minimal disruption and strong communication
• Balancing urgency, organization, and risk management in a large enterprise environment

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, Technical Project Management, Program Coordination, or a related function
• Experience supporting software, infrastructure, platform, or enterprise technology releases
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise technology organizations
• Strong project coordination and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and competing priorities
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and driving deliverables to completion
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable working with technical teams and discussing technical concepts
• Experience creating and managing change tickets, release documentation, approvals, and implementation plans
• Proven ability to facilitate meetings, drive decisions, and manage stakeholder expectations
• Strong attention to detail and sense of ownership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting production releases during evening or overnight maintenance windows
• Background in telecommunications, large-scale technology organizations, or highly regulated enterprise environments
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles, CI/CD processes, and production deployment practices
• Understanding of application architecture, databases, cloud platforms, APIs, and enterprise systems
• Experience coordinating executive-level stakeholders and approvals
• Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, or similar workflow and change management platforms

Ideal Candidate Profile

We're looking for someone who can take established execution guidelines and run with them independently. This person should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, tracking down approvals, coordinating multiple teams, escalating when necessary, and keeping releases moving forward without requiring constant direction.

The right candidate is organized, assertive, detail-oriented, and thrives in an environment where priorities move quickly and successful execution depends on strong communication and coordination across many stakeholders.

Interview Process

• 30-minute remote interview with hiring leadership
• 30-minute remote interview with Release Management team
• Behavioral-focused discussions around organization, stakeholder management, and real-world examples of coordinating people through high-pressure situations

Disclaimer

Brooksource, Medasource, and Calculated Hire are part of the Eight Eleven Group family of companies and operate under Eight Eleven Group, LLC. All employees receive the same benefits, policies, and terms of employment.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related conditions), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Benefits & Perks

Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee's needs. We offer a 401(k) plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services such as virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, and more.

Pay Disclaimer

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include, but are not limited to, responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreements (if any), or other legal requirements.

Pay Range for This Position: $50-$60/hour W2. Actual compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, and business needs.