Product Release Manager / Scrum Master

Experience: 4 to 6 years

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a smart, dynamic, and highly execution-oriented Product Release Manager / Scrum Master to drive the planning and execution of product releases.

This role will work closely with Product, Engineering, QA, internal business teams, and client teams to ensure that product initiatives and releases are planned effectively, executed smoothly, and delivered on time.

The ideal candidate is someone who takes ownership, follows through relentlessly, is comfortable working with different stakeholders, and gets things closed. You do not necessarily need to be the most technically experienced person in the roombut you should be able to understand the work, ask the right questions, identify dependencies and risks, and ensure that everyone delivers what they have committed to.

This is a highly collaborative and execution-focused role for someone who enjoys making things happen.

Key Responsibilities

1. Release Planning & Execution

- Own the planning and coordination of product releases from requirement readiness through development, QA, UAT, and production release.
- Work with Product and Engineering to break down requirements into actionable tasks, milestones, and release plans.
- Create and maintain release schedules, timelines, dependencies, and milestones.
- Track progress closely and ensure commitments are met.
- Identify delays, dependencies, and bottlenecks early and drive them toward resolution.
- Ensure that release activities are completed within agreed timelines.

2. Drive Engineering & QA Execution

- Work closely with Engineering leads, developers, and QA teams to track execution.
- Understand the high-level technical scope sufficiently to identify dependencies, risks, and potential delivery challenges.
- Conduct regular follow-ups on development and testing activities.
- Ensure defects, blockers, and open points are assigned and driven to closure.
- Escalate issues when required rather than allowing them to remain unresolved.
- Maintain clear visibility of what is done, what is pending, who owns it, and by when it will be completed.

3. Cross-Functional Coordination

- Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, Design, Support, Sales/Pre-Sales, Operations, and other internal teams as required.
- Ensure all teams are aligned on release scope, timelines, dependencies, and responsibilities.
- Coordinate activities that require inputs or actions from multiple teams.
- Ensure handoffs between teams happen smoothly and on time.

4. Client & Stakeholder Coordination

- Coordinate with client teams for requirements, clarifications, UAT, feedback,



and release readiness.
- Track client dependencies and ensure timely responses/actions from both sides.
- Organize and drive requirement discussions, UAT coordination, issue resolution, and release-related meetings.
- Maintain professional and clear communication with client stakeholders.
- Ensure that client commitments and open action items are actively tracked through closure.

5. Agile / Scrum Ceremonies

- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as:

- Sprint Planning
- Daily Stand-ups

- Sprint Reviews / Demos

- Retrospectives

- Backlog Refinement
- Ensure ceremonies are focused, structured, and outcome-oriented.
- Maintain sprint goals and ensure the team remains aligned with priorities.
- Track sprint commitments and proactively address slippages.

6. Tracking, Reporting & Visibility

- Maintain release trackers, sprint trackers, RAID logs, action-item trackers, and other project documentation as required.
- Provide concise and meaningful status updates to Product and leadership.

- Highlight

- Progress against plan

- Delayed items

- Key dependencies

- Risks and blockers

- Decisions required

- Overall release readiness
- Ensure there are no surprises close to the release date.

7. Process Improvement

- Identify gaps in the product development and release process.
- Improve planning, tracking, communication, and execution practices.
- Establish straightforward and effective processes that help the team deliver consistently.
- Learn from previous releases and implement improvements in subsequent releases.

What We Are Looking For Must-Have

- 46 years of experience in Scrum Master, Project Management, Program/Delivery Management, Product Operations, or a similar role.
- Strong ownership and execution mindset.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills.
- Strong follow-up skills with a demonstrated ability to drive tasks to closure.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and parallel workstreams.
- Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing product environment.
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.




- Experience working with Engineering and QA teams.
- Good working knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar project management tools.

Most Important: Mindset & Personality We are looking for someone who is:

- Smart and sharp understands situations quickly and knows what needs to happen next.
- Dynamic and proactive does not wait for someone to tell them what to do.
- Strong on follow-through – keeps pushing until an action is completed.
- Closure-oriented – does not just track tasks; makes sure they get completed.
- Comfortable asking questions – can challenge timelines, assumptions, and dependencies when required.
- Accountable – takes ownership of the outcome rather than simply managing a tracker.
- Good with people – can work effectively with developers, QA, Product, senior leadership, and clients.
- Calm under pressure – can handle tight timelines, changing priorities, and release challenges.
- Practical and solution-oriented – focuses on solving problems rather than explaining why something cannot be done.

Technical Understanding The candidate does not need to be a hands-on developer. However, they should be comfortable working with technical teams and understand concepts such as:

- Software development lifecycle
- APIs and integrations
- Web/mobile applications
- Development and testing environments
- QA/UAT cycles
- Defect management
- Release management
- Dependencies between systems/modules
- Basic understanding of databases and cloud applications

The expectation is that the person can understand enough technical context to manage execution effectively and ask the right questions. Success in This Role The person will be successful if:

- Releases are planned realistically and executed on schedule.
- Engineering and QA teams have clear priorities and timelines.
- Dependencies and risks are identified early.
- Blockers are actively driven to resolution.
- Client and internal action items do not remain open unnecessarily.
- Product, Engineering, QA, and client teams remain aligned.
- Leadership has clear visibility into release status.
- Most importantly, things actually get done and closed.

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Management, or a related field preferred.
- Scrum Master / Agile certification is a plus but not mandatory.

Preferred Experience Candidates with experience in any of the following environments will be preferred:

- B2B SaaS / Enterprise Software
- HR Tech / Workforce Management / HCM
- Product companies
- Enterprise integrations
- Client-facing technology implementations
- Multi-team product development environments

📌 Product Release Manager / Scrum Master (Bengaluru)
🏢 Onusworks Software India
📍 Bengaluru