Nike Hiring Experienced Senior Release Manager

Overview:

Nike is hiring an experienced Senior Release Manager- Tech Ops at their Bangalore location. As a Senior Release Manager, you will be an integral part of the team that enables Nike to bring its world-class products and experiences to market. You will work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops. In true Nike fashion, you will partner closely with teams including program, product, engineering, release engineering, and quality to not only execute releases, but continually improve process, achieve efficiencies, and deliver a quality product timely.

The complete details of this job are as follows:

What will you be doing:

Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies

Manage all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment

Develop risk management and contingency planning for releases of any size

Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness

Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal

Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production

Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework

Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements

Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions

Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders

Manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders

Participate in Capability Stand Ups and PI Planning sessions to determine and plan for upcoming release scope.

Identify and drive retrospective items to completion.

Qualifications for this Job:

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field

2-8 years of professional experience.

A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies, and technical capabilities (including agile – lean, continuous delivery, SAFE, ITIL)

Experience working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle

Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and influence others, negotiate during situational conflict, and establish the best forward path in the face of competing points of view.

Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented matrixed environment.

Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow

What Skills are Needed:

Functional expertise in driving change and delivering high quality results.

Demonstrable experience operating in a complex, federated global organization with a geographically dispersed team.

Experience at developing risk management and contingency planning for production changes

Successful track record of applying operational readiness techniques to complex feature implementations

Successful track record of partnership across organizations to build trust and achieve shared goals.

Good communications and presentation skills. Able to communicate sophisticated and technical issues effectively and concisely to leadership.

High professional standards and expectations for self and others.

Professional stature and gravitas to collaborate with and influence team members with credibility and confidence.

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