Lead Release Manager

Location: Hybrid position based in Philadelphia, with office attendance up to 3 days per week; the posting header also lists Overland Park, Kansas. Core business hours are primarily in the Eastern time zone, with flexibility for planned production releases, cutovers, and collaboration across time zones.

Company

hirify.global provides IT services through enterprise applications, data, integration, and emerging AI capabilities.

What you will do

• Own, maintain, and publish the enterprise release calendar, coordinating scope, manifests, milestones, and deployment timelines across products and platforms.
• Lead release planning, readiness reviews, stakeholder alignment, and go/no-go decisions, ensuring testing, approvals, and sign-offs are complete.
• Coordinate Product, Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and business teams while resolving conflicts, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Manage release risks, blockers, escalations, rollback plans, and contingency plans; coordinate major go-lives, cutovers, war rooms, validation, and stabilization.
• Represent releases in CAB and change-control forums, maintain audit-ready records, and ensure compliance with release controls and approval workflows.
• Own release communications and KPIs, analyze failures and process gaps, and improve release predictability, efficiency, and quality with Engineering and DevOps.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional experience in Release Management, Technical Program or Project Management, IT Change Management, Delivery Management, or a closely related area.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise software delivery environments, coordinating releases across multiple applications, products, or technical teams.
• End-to-end release management experience, including release calendars, readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, production cutovers, and post-release stabilization.
• Experience leading or representing releases through Change Advisory Board and Change Management processes, including production change approvals.
• Experience managing release risks, dependencies, escalations, and rollback or contingency plans for enterprise production releases.
• Experience supporting audit, compliance, and release governance requirements, including approvals, testing evidence, change records, and release documentation.
• Experience working in Agile/SDLC and CI/CD or DevOps environments, using Jira, ServiceNow, or equivalent release and change management tools.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting Salesforce, SaaS applications, hybrid or multi-cloud environments, or enterprise platforms such as NetSuite, Oracle EBS, or Boomi.
• Experience with Confluence, SharePoint, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or CI/CD pipeline tooling.
• ITIL, PMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or a similar relevant certification.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation programs and using release metrics such as release success rate, deployment lead time, or mean time to restore.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent hybrid position with office attendance up to 3 days per week.
• Primary work during Eastern time zone business hours, with flexibility for release and cross-time-zone needs.
• Collaboration across Product Management, Software Development, QA and Automation, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, Change Management, Audit, and business teams.
• Work environment focused on clear ownership, practical governance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Equal employment opportunity commitment and compliance with applicable non-discrimination laws.