Key Responsibilities

- Release Strategy Planning: Define release strategy, scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies and release calendar aligned with product roadmap and customer commitments.
- Release Governance: Own and institutionalize Release Management processes, standards, policies, templates and governance across products.
- End-to-End Release Management: Manage releases from planning through development, testing, and closure.
- Release Readiness: Establish and monitor readiness criteria covering functional, technical, testing, infrastructure, security and operational aspects.
- Stakeholder Management: Coordinate Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Operations, Architecture and other teams to ensure smooth release execution.
- Risk Dependency Management: Identify risks, bottlenecks and cross-team dependencies and drive timely resolution.
- Customer Roadmap Alignment: Ensure customer CRs, defects and business priorities are appropriately aligned with product releases and roadmap.
- Reporting Metrics: Establish release dashboards and KPIs covering release predictability, quality, timelines, risks and deployment performance.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop Release Managers/Coordinators and build a strong release management capability.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive process standardization, automation and adoption of modern release practices to improve release quality, speed and predictability.

Technical / Functional Competencies

- Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile, Release Management.
- Good understanding of branch management, feature, deployment and rollback processes.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Digit or similar tools.




- Strong knowledge of release dashboards, metrics and reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Good understanding of software delivery metrics would be an advantage.
- Exposure to AI-enabled automation and release management is desirable.

Behavioral / Leadership Competencies

- Strong ownership and accountability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
- Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
- Strategic and structured approach to problem solving.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong team leadership, mentoring and coaching capability.
- Customer-focused and results-oriented.
- Strong focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Experience Qualification

- 12+ years of experience in Software Delivery, Product Management, Release Management, Program Management or related technology functions.
- 5+ years of experience in Release Management / Product Delivery.
- Proven experience managing multiple products/releases and cross-functional teams.
- Experience managing and mentoring Release Managers/Coordinators.
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or equivalent.
- PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, SAFe or Agile certification would be an advantage.

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📌 Senior Product Release Manager (Gurugram)
🏢 Comviva Technology
📍 Gurugram