Technical Release Manager

Summary

Join FloQast as a Technical Release Manager to lead and scale the software release process. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure smooth and timely releases. Responsibilities include owning the end-to-end release lifecycle, driving release planning and execution, managing risks, and improving release velocity. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in technical program or release management within a SaaS/software product company, strong understanding of SDLC and CI/CD, and excellent communication skills. Experience with tools like Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, and ArgoCD is required. FloQast offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, family forming benefits, life and disability insurance, and unlimited vacation.

Requirements

• 5+ years in technical program management, release management, or related roles in a SaaS/software product company
• Proven experience managing complex release cycles in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), CI/CD, and deployment pipelines
• Experience working with tools like Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar
• Excellent communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Strong technical acumen and ability to partner closely with engineering and DevOps
• Experience in a fast-growing environment where processes are evolving

Responsibilities

• Own the Release Process: Define and manage release schedules, cutoffs, and cadences across multiple engineering squads
• Coordinate Across Teams: Serve as the point of contact for all release-related activities, ensuring alignment across Engineering, QA, DevOps, and Product
• Risk Management: Identify and manage risks, blockers, and dependencies ahead of release; proactively drive resolution
• Communicate Clearly: Provide clear visibility into release plans, status, and outcomes to stakeholders at all levels
• Improve Process and Tools: Analyze and optimize release workflows and tooling to scale with our growing organization
• Automation & CI/CD: Collaborate with DevOps to integrate release automation and CI/CD best practices into the lifecycle
• Incident Readiness & Rollbacks: Establish protocols for rollback and release contingency in coordination with SRE and QA

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservices and multi-team service orchestration
• Prior experience at a fintech or enterprise SaaS company

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Family Forming benefits
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Unlimited Vacation