Salesforce Release Manager

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Half-time

Experience: 8-10 years

Working Hours: Minimum 4-hour daily overlap with U.S. Eastern Time

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Salesforce Release Manager to own and coordinate the end-to-end release lifecycle across development, staging, UAT and production. You will keep deployments predictable and controlled through Git-based workflows, environment readiness, release governance and CI/CD support.

What You'll Do

- Manage release planning, deployment scheduling, environment readiness, governance and deployment documentation

- Create and manage Git pull requests, including on behalf of Salesforce Administrators when needed

- Create a current sprint branch after each successful production deployment and maintain disciplined branch practices

- Perform targeted, defect-driven rollbacks using cherry-picking when QA or UAT validation fails

- Regularly rebase sprint and staging branches to stay aligned with the production baseline

- Coordinate deployments, change management and release validation with Developers, QA Engineers, Business Analysts and Administrators

- Support Git-based CI/CD automation and troubleshoot metadata, dependency, merge, validation and deployment issues

- Maintain release calendars, implementation and rollback steps, deployment evidence,



risk logs and post-release documentation

- Take part in Agile ceremonies and flag risks, blockers and timing impacts early

What We're Looking For

- 7+ years of Salesforce experience, including hands-on release management or DevOps

- Strong knowledge of Git, pull requests, branching strategies, rebasing, merge conflict resolution and cherry-picking

- Hands-on experience with the Salesforce deployment lifecycle, sandboxes, metadata dependencies and production releases

- Experience with Salesforce DX and Git-based CI/CD pipelines

- Strong coordination, documentation, troubleshooting and communication skills

- Experience in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based release cadences

- Ability to maintain a 4-hour daily overlap with U.S. Eastern Time for standups, ceremonies and release coordination

Preferred

- Hands-on Gearset experience (equivalent deployment automation experience is acceptable)

- Experience with Copado, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins

Certifications (Preferred)

- Gearset Certification or demonstrable advanced Gearset experience

- Salesforce Certified Administrator

- Salesforce Platform Developer I

- Copado Fundamentals

Pay: Up to ₹2,000,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Work from home

Work Location: Remote

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