We re a growing team, and as we scale, so does our need to focus on expanding our engineering team. You ll be joining a people-focused company, and as a Release Manager, you will oversee planning, scheduling, communication, and coordination of our industry-leading SaaS platforms and applications. You will be pivotal in ensuring the timely delivery of software to our customers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to manage expectations, measure results, and improve processes.
THE OPPORTUNITY
- Plan and coordinate releases to established timelines across multiple product teams
- Organize and facilitate structured communications throughout the release lifecycle
- Continuously improve release processes based on lessons learned and best practices
- Ensure the definition of done is clearly published and tracked
- Drive communication and treatment of risks
- Identify and drive resolution of dependencies across separate products
- Other duties as assigned.
THE SKILL SET
- Prefer a Bachelor s or Master s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, business, Management Information Systems or related field
- 2+ years of experience in software release program management, and 5+ years of total experience in software development preferably SaaS.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build trusted partnerships with executives and product teams
- Strong working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and software quality attributes
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Knowledge of Project Management Software Tools such as Jira
- Travel requirement is up to 10%
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Desirable certifications include those from PMI, Scaled Agile, Scrum Alliance.
THE BENEFITS
- Professional growth and Development opportunities.
- Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach
- Flexible working hours
- 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday
- High-end laptop (Dell or Mac)
- Competitive pay and bonus
- 18 vacation days in a year in addition to 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year
- 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.
- Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents. 100% of the premium is paid by Vendavo and it covers the employee, spouse, children, and their parents.
- Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of their Annual CTC . Dependents are not covered.
- Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC. Dependents are not covered.
- Provident fund contributions