Position: Release Manager
Company: LITSLINK
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Requirements:
— 2+ years of previous release and/or project management and/or QA experience;
— Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field;
— Formal training in project management practices preferred;
— Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle;
— Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion;
— Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills;
— Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must.

We offer:
— Great opportunity to work in a strong professional environment;
— Competitive salary;
— Strong technical support of the company’s architectural board and implementation team ;
— Flexible working schedule. We respect your personal time. So you can start any time till 11 a.m. and finish accordingly till 8 p.m.;
— A friendly international working atmosphere with clients from EU/US/Canada/Hong-Kong/etc.
— Paid vacation and sick leaves, corporate events;
— Сomfortable office in the Kyiv city center (near Lvivska square, BC Kiyanovskiy).

Responsibilities:
— Own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and management of releases across the Company for multiple applications across various application categories;
— Provide services and tools to help product management and project teams manage and deploy releases into production through staging;
— Communicate with Quality Assurance Managers, Development Managers, Development Operation Managers, and Project Team Leaders on a weekly or daily basis;
 — Be responsible for implementing and managing release processes through development, test, and production environments;
— Build and follow obvious Release Calendar;
— Negotiate, plan, review and manage all release activities with risk mitigation;
— Communicate release details and schedules to the Top Management and Business as required;
— Active release reporting internally as well as to Business;
— Participate in permanent improvements of the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments;
— Maintains release repositories and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists;
— Research new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyzes their application to current configuration management needs;
— Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.