Senior Director Release Management (AI)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; hybrid work opportunities are available.

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise software company with AI-driven solutions, more than 7,000 employees, and a global customer base.

What you will do

• Define and execute the release ecosystem strategy across Product and Technology.
• Embed release controls, policy-as-code, automated compliance checks, risk scoring, and evidence collection into engineering workflows and deployment pipelines.
• Establish differentiated release models for product, service, emergency, security, platform, customer onboarding, and AI/model releases.
• Own or co-own environment strategy, shared environment governance, readiness, utilization, observability, and customer onboarding assurance.
• Build release intelligence using telemetry, operational data, predictive insights, and AI to improve deployment risk management.
• Lead, coach, and develop a transformation-focused release management function while creating investment cases and modernization roadmaps.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software delivery, release management, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud operations, engineering program management, or engineering leadership.
• Proven experience modernizing release, deployment, or operational governance in complex product, platform, or service environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, progressive delivery, feature flags, deployment automation, policy-as-code, automated compliance, observability, SRE principles, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with environment strategy, shared environment governance, customer onboarding readiness, environment observability, and ephemeral or on-demand environments.
• Ability to use data, telemetry, dashboards, predictive insights, or AI to improve release risk management, deployment reliability, and engineering productivity.
• Strong stakeholder leadership and change management skills, including influencing Product, Engineering, Platform, Security, Operations, Support, and executive stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities designed to support different needs and lifestyles.
• Inclusive and diverse international work environment.
• Focus on collaboration, trust, sustainability, continuous improvement, and shared ownership.
• Opportunity to shape modern engineering enablement and AI adoption across the organization.