Agile Delivery Release Manager

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Agile Team and Project Management:

• Drive facilitation of agile ceremonies such as standups, retros, and team activities.
• Own the Kanban walls, ensuring they're always up to date and prioritized by the product team.
• Act as an agile project manager, following a Scrum or Kanban framework shaped by the team.

Delivery:

• Drive estimation of duration based on engineering's complexity estimates.
• Compile a timeline of milestones aligned with product prioritization and engineering estimates.
• Keep the timeline and forecasted delivery dates always up to date.
• Initiate review or re-estimation of the timeline when scope changes.
• Update the timeline when priorities change.
• Report timeline status to business immediately on change and via biweekly summaries.
• Keep business timeline expectations and team estimates aligned, driving consolidation where they diverge.
• Track and drive resolution of cross-team dependencies to minimize stall time.
• Identify blockers and drive their resolution.
• Highlight blockers, resource shortages, and bottlenecks to all other teams.

Releases:

• Plan releases as deliverables of product increments to the business.
• Manage all intersections of release planning with business, marketing, engineering, QA, and support.
• Ensure necessary stakeholders are available during deployment activities.
• Document release history.
• Conduct release retros and liaise with support on incidents.

Requirements:

• You've spent 5+ years in delivery, release, and agile project management roles, ideally in a multi-team product engineering environment, with startup experience and the pace that comes with it.
• You genuinely enjoy the multitude of responsibilities a role like this carries in a startup, rather than seeing it as scope creep. You're grounded in Scrum and Kanban, but you adapt ceremonies to what a team actually needs rather than following a playbook rigidly, and you bring pragmatic estimation and prioritization rather than theoretical rigor.
• You've built and maintained delivery timelines from engineering estimates, and you reforecast confidently when scope or priorities shift.
• You have a track record of surfacing and resolving cross-team dependencies and blockers before they cause delay and of planning and running releases end-to-end, including coordination with support and stakeholders outside engineering.
• Your communication is factual and direct; you report status, including bad news, to business stakeholders early and plainly, without spin. You work easily across multiple teams and time zones, know how to bring focus and structure to a fast-paced environment, and have a vast set of tools in your toolbox, acquired from experience, to shape the success of your activities.
• You're strong with Jira and Confluence.