Release manager

PMLAB (formerly BETLAB) is Ukrainian Product company in Sports betting sphere and we are looking for Release manager tо keep up-to-date innovative and best technical stack in our product development.

We are making platform which covers all processes of Sports betting business. We started in 2014, and now we are 200+ team members all together working on achieving our shared goal and we keep growing!

You will be involved in:

• Defining and establishing release schedules;
• Developing/maintaining a release management discipline based on experience and best practices;
• Creating comprehensive documentation on the release process, roles and responsibilities;
• Creating and implementing release policies and procedures;
• Leading release planning meetings and activities, conducting release readiness reviews, posting implementation reviews;
• Serving as the key release representative in all communication, management and decision-making on all release management issues;
• Serving as an escalation point for all issues and questions associated with a release;
• Providing on-going written and verbal release status updates to various stakeholders;
• Coordinating defects tracking during release phases;
• Coordinating Product Owner or responsible team member to ensure follow up and closure of defect;
• Managing the risk and deployment of deliverables to production and resolving issues that affect on release scope, schedule, and quality;
• Measuring and monitoring progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time;
• Tracking milestone signoffs, code freeze, exception approvals;
• Using post-release reviews to improve and adjust the release management process.

We are interested in:

• Proven experience delivering 20+ projects to production, working in different methodologies in parallel;
• Proven management experience in relevant and similar roles;
• Good understanding of product release & support workflow;
• Experience in office and collaboration tools (SharePoint, JIRA, Portfolio, Confluence);
• Advanced knowledge of SCM;
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously;
• Knowledge of major tasks, deliverables, formal methodologies and disciplines for implementing new or enhanced applications with complex rollouts/release cycles;
• Results oriented, willing to take responsibility and accept accountability for action;
• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to interact with senior management, technical subject matter experts, and business customers.

Being a member of PMLAB team means:

• Challenging tasks with great opportunity to level up your skills;
• Knowledge sharing atmosphere (you have a chance to be a speaker in our internal meetups);
• Competitive salary and сonstant encouragement for your efforts and contribution;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• 100% paid sick leaves;
• Medical insurance/ sports compensation;
• Relocation bonus;
• Individual annual training budget with an opportunity to visit paid conferences, training sessions, workshops etc;
• Corporate library and subscriptions for Pluralsight and Safari online;
• Lunches delivery to the office;
• Unlimited good mood and support!