Sr Technical Release Manager

Overview

Hybrid
Up to $65
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

Release management
release calendar ownership
dependency management
quality assurance
testing
documentation
approvals
change management
release readiness
go/no-go reviews
deployment across environments
emergency releases
hotfix management
rollback planning
recovery planning
release communications
reporting
post-release reviews
CI/CD pipeline management
certificate management
secrets rotation
Jira
GitLab
red/green deployments
production support
environment stability
environment synchronization.

Job Details

Role: Sr Technical Release Manager
Location: Overland Park, KS Hybrid (3 days onsite)

This position is essential to maintaining seamless release cycles, managing interdependencies between NLP models, rule-based flows, and system integrations, and ensuring compliance with quality, privacy, and conversational design standards.

The Release Manager also plays a crucial role in mitigating deployment risks and ensuring stability in live environments where real-time AI interactions directly impact user experience.

Without this role, the team risks increased release bottlenecks, inconsistencies across conversational channels, and delays in rolling out new AI driven product enhancements or critical fixes. Promptly filling this gap will ensure operational continuity, maintain the integrity of our AI assistants, and support our commitment to delivering robust, intelligent, and human-centric virtual experiences.

The Sr Technical Release Manager will perform the following.

  • Own and maintain the release calendar across all development streams
  • Coordinate release content and schedules with product, development, QA, and operations teams
  • Ensure all release dependencies are identified and managed
  • Ensure pre-release quality standards are met (testing, documentation, approvals)
  • Monitor and enforce compliance with change management and release processes
  • Conduct release readiness and Go/No-Go reviews
  • Oversee the deployment of code into development, QLABs, staging, Pre-Prod and production environments
  • Manage emergency or hotfix releases
  • Ensure proper rollback and recovery plans are in place
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for release-related communications
  • Communicate release status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership
  • Create reports and post-release reviews (including lessons learned)
  • Work with DevOps teams to implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, Certs, Secrets Rotations
  • Maintain and optimize release management tools (e.g., Jira, GitLab. Red/Green Deployments)
  • Work with Production support to maintain stability and synchronization of code in lower environments

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