Senior Release Manager

TL;DR

Senior Release Manager: Building and optimizing enterprise-wide release strategy, governance, and execution for a mission-critical SaaS customer interaction management platform with an accent on predictable, high-quality, and highly available SaaS releases, ensuring 99.99% uptime, while continuously evolving release practices through automation and operational excellence. Focus on leading complex, large-scale releases, aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations, and championing ITIL-aligned Change and Problem Management.

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom (2 days in office, 3 days remote).

Company

hirify.global is a corporation with 25,000+ global businesses as clients, including Fortune 100 companies, excelling in AI, cloud, and digital solutions.

What you will do

• Own and evolve enterprise release management strategy, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Lead planning, orchestration, and execution of complex, large-scale SaaS releases.
• Serve as the primary release authority, ensuring readiness, risk assessment, and go/no-go decision-making.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to align dependencies and release outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement of release processes, change management, and automation across the SDLC.
• Oversee testing strategies and environment readiness, ensuring quality gates and validation standards are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 3+ years of experience working within the SDLC in enterprise SaaS environments, with significant ownership of release management functions.
• 1+ years of experience leading complex, concurrent software releases in a senior Release Manager or similar role.
• Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployment strategies (monolith and microservices).
• Strong knowledge of ITIL Change and Problem Management, release governance, and risk management principles.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence without authority, and drive alignment at senior levels.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work from the London office 2 days per week.

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• Experience with release automation, tooling, and metrics to improve deployment reliability and transparency.
• Background in software engineering, DevOps, or QA/testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model (2 days in office, 3 days remote) with flexibility.
• Office days focus on face-to-face meetings for teamwork and collaborative innovation.
• Opportunity to shape and mature release management practices across a global organization.
• Exposure to advanced CI/CD, cloud-native, and microservices architectures.
• High visibility, influence, and impact across product, engineering, and operations leadership.
• Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.