Release Manager- Product Operations

Who We Are

Cognism is a leader in international sales intelligence, setting a new standard for data quality and compliance, trusted by 1000+ revenue teams worldwide. Cognism helps businesses connect with their dream prospects by providing premium contact, company and event information, including firmographics, technographics, sales trigger events, intent data, verified business emails and phone-verified mobile numbers.

Next level GDPR & CCPA compliance, combined with innovative technology and integrations with leading CRM and sales engagement partners, make Cognism the number one choice for businesses looking to create a predictable pipeline, find their next best business opportunity and overcome global compliance barriers.

For more information on Cognism’s intuitive sales intelligence platform powered by world-leading data, compliance and targeting, please visit www.cognism.com.

Who You Are

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with fellow product managers, designers, user researchers, engineers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.

You relentlessly strive to excel in your craft. You are a highly collaborative and organized person focused on ensuring the quality and timely delivery of software. You have a passion for helping to evaluate and improve release processes in a fast-growing company.

You consistently seek to create clarity and alignment through communicating progress and risk. You look at every interaction as an opportunity to learn. You aren’t afraid to ask questions. You have the humility and confidence to not be the smartest person in the room.

In this role you will be accountable for the Release Management lifecycle, which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases.You are responsible for providing leadership and direction to the change management process and maintaining clarity and alignment across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Work with Product and Engineering teams to plan and coordinate software releases
• Own the release calendar including details on code freezes, deployments, and patch windows
• Define deployment readiness criteria for each release and track adherence
• Communicate release schedules, artifacts, and status to all stakeholders
• Coordinate with development managers to ensure timely and accurate release notes
• Conduct weekly release readiness review meetings and track progress across multiple teams
• Identify and remediate complex deployment and scheduling conflicts across Engineering
• Review current release process across the organization and propose changes to drive improved quality

Requirements

• 5+ years' release or technical program/project management experience, preferably in a B2B environment
• 2-3 Years experience in SaaS delivery model is a must-have, in either B2B environments
• Ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) and Agile methodologies Experience in bringing creative ideas and proposals to development teams and executives supported by qualitative justification and quantitative analysis
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical individuals
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to lead and direct a projects/programs to success
• Technically savvy and able to identify delivery risks easily
• Bachelors degree in management, business, computer science or other equivalent.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on the level of experience
• 24 days’ holiday PLUS all the usual public holidays
• Flexible working hours, with the ability to work from home
• Work with the latest technology paradigms
• Access to education opportunities (books, courses, seminars, conferences)
• Access to Cognism’s Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured
• Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
• Remote Workouts and Social activities