Lead Release Manager

Job Title: Lead Release Manager
Location: Hybrid, San Francisco, CA
Contract or Perm: Contract
Duration: 6+ months
Interview Type: Video

Must have
5+ years of experience in Deployment/Release Management in an enterprise software (not hardware) environment with a background in release engineering
Deployment day to day release management: managing all release activities across many systems/applications.
This includes upfront planning for releases, working with product/engineering, working with third party vendors, and ultimately putting software into the production system.
Experience executing a plan, managing change requests, managing issues that come up, managing dependencies, etc.
Process change management; looking for this person to come in, evaluate the environment, and define/improve/optimize the release process.
This may include documentation, process improvement, implementing best practices, understanding what the problems are, and what is the journey to get to the next evolution, implement post-mortems, etc.
Communication leading release discussion with leadership (need to be comfortable going between tech/non-tech team members), consolidating efforts with processes
Must has some level of experience within Ecommerce domain
Technical background comfortable working with the engineering team, good understanding of SDLC.
Experience working with both onshore & offshore teams
Development cycle is pretty aggressive, releases are every 2 weeks, managing 2-3 releases in parallel (different stages)
Independent worker, self-starter, self-sufficient.
Not required, but a huge plus if they have experience & understand the dynamics of retail environment