Release Manager

Release Manager

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Innovapptive is a global leader for industrial connected worker solutions that brings front-line workers, back-office and assets together. The company uniquely unlocks all aspects of an enterprise's work management processes with its flagship patented no-code connected worker platform and integrated suite of apps that tightly integrate with enterprise ERP's, enterprise asset management (EAM) and asset performance management (APM) systems. The platform empowers operators, maintenance and warehouse teams to seamlessly collaborate and communicate to carry out work identification to work management workflows. Today, Innovapptive serves some of the world's largest asset intensive customers and helps them attract and retain the best talent with it's platform's end to end digital solutions to improve operational efficiencies, safety, compliance, asset uptime, and reliability. Innovapptive is headquartered in Houston, TX, with a Global Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India and offices in Australia.

We are backed by Tiger Global Management, a Global Marquee Fund with over $30 Billion of Assets Under Management (AUM). Tiger Global Management has a reputation of investing and building some of the world's "Unicorn" brands such as Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Peloton, Harry's, Ola, Flipkart, Freshworks and many more!.

Recently in May 2023 Innovapptive raised a Series B investment led by Vista Equity Partners ("Vista"), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses. Existing investor Tiger Global Management also participated in the round. Vista is a leading global investment firm with more than $96 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2022. The firm exclusively invests in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organizations across private equity, permanent capital, credit and public equity strategies, bringing an approach that prioritizes creating enduring market value for the benefit of its global ecosystem of investors, companies, customers and employees.

The Role

As a Release Manager you are responsible for the continuous delivery of application releases supporting business critical services.. You are able to leverage product and program management practices to define and lead innovative initiatives focused on product availability, customer experience, application ownership and continuous delivery. You use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead deployments of major product releases, feature releases and patches in a SaaS environment.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• You are a Multiplier and constantly look for ways to make other teams successful. You understand that the success and productivity of the hundreds of scrum teams you interact with is critical to enabling continuous change.
• You combine customer empathy and your passion for moving fast to deliver frequent, high quality releases that benefit our customers and partners and motivate our engineers.
• You are a bold leader who is visionary, makes data-informed decisions, takes calculated risks and is effective at influencing all levels of stakeholders. You are able to communicate clearly to everyone from Executives to individual contributors. You love working with customers and partners; every decision you make is with Customer Trust in mind.
• You seek opportunities to be mentored and to mentor others. You have a beginners mindset and an insatiable desire to learn. You leverage the analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills that you learned through your bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or another interesting field to lead cross-functional teams and deliver revolutionary solutions.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Technical program or engineering management experience at an enterprise technology company.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of the SaaS business model and its product development lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation.
• Has to work with stakeholders to ensure timely releases
• Strong at change control and change mgmt
• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
• Building and managing Jira dashboards for releases
• Planned vs Actuals
• Capacity utilisation
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives, and technical, and non-technical team members.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
• Ability to master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
• Exposure to data analytics and reporting is definitely advantageous (any CRM reporting tool)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to successfully partner with all functions across the entire company.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Requirements:

• Familiar with Service Ownership and DevOps best practices.
• Experience managing SaaS Cloud Application releases.
• Familiarity with compliance and security standards, policies, and risk management.
• Public cloud infrastructure knowledge.
• Comfortable bending between the tactical and strategic.
• Ability to manage/juggle multiple priorities without loss of efficiency.

What We Offer:

• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promoting high performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.