Software Release Specialist (IoT)

Location: Cesena, Italy

Salary: €35,000–€45,000 gross annually, depending on experience, technical skills, and responsibilities, under the applicable CCNL Metalmeccanici.

Company

hirify.global develops connected physical activity solutions used by millions of people worldwide.

What you will do

• Manage the end-to-end software release lifecycle for digital products and connected devices, from scheduling through post-launch monitoring.
• Coordinate release activities across development, QA, marketing, and operations, managing dependencies and adoption goals.
• Maintain the master release calendar, enforce quality policies, lead readiness meetings, and coordinate go/no-go decisions.
• Monitor adoption rates, analyze deployment data, reduce version fragmentation, and report operational KPIs such as speed and change failure rate.
• Improve release processes and documentation.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in software deployment, release management, or product operations, including rollouts across distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid understanding of release management, Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban, Lean principles including Kaizen and continuous improvement, and traditional project management approaches including Waterfall and Stage-Gate.
• High familiarity with collaboration tools: Jira, Confluence, Notion, GitHub, and Bitbucket.
• High familiarity with data analysis tools such as Power BI, Data Studio, BigQuery, or similar, and Microsoft 365.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and an execution-driven mindset.
• Excellent English communication skills for aligning cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT, connected devices, SaaS, or large geographically distributed software.
• Experience setting up operational dashboards from scratch.
• Familiarity with risk assessment frameworks in IT operations.

Culture & Benefits

• International product environment spanning more than 100 countries and connected devices.
• Employment governed by the applicable National Collective Labour Agreement for the metalworking industry.
• Equal-opportunities workplace focused on growth, wellbeing, collaboration, and continuous learning.