Release Manager

Job Title: Release Manager
Location: Remote
Salary: 80- 90k + 10% bonus
Type: Permanent
Sponsorship: Not available

We are the UK's construction-specific software provider, delivering market-leading end-to-end solutions across the entire construction lifecycle. Our products are used globally, with teams across the UK, Europe, and India.

We're entering a major 3-year roadmap focused on large-scale digital transformation, product innovation, and continued growth. We value diversity, equality, and inclusion - creating an environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work.

We're hiring a proactive, strategic Release Manager to drive smooth, predictable, high-quality software and product releases. This role aligns cross-functional teams from capacity planning through execution and enablement.

You'll report to the VP Product - Applications and coordinate planning, execution, communication, governance, and continuous improvement across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Delivery to define quarterly and annual capacity plans

• Align capacity with product roadmaps and business priorities

• Use historical data and velocity trends to forecast delivery and highlight constraints

• Support release planning across multiple scrum teams and feature sets

• Build release calendars, dependency maps, and milestone plans

• Align technical delivery with business readiness and enablement timelines

• Create real-time dashboards tracking epics, features, sprints, and releases

• Monitor KPIs: burndown, defect leakage, test pass rates, deployment success

• Facilitate scrums of scrums and cross-team dependency syncs

• Provide structured reporting on timelines, scope changes, risks, and release health

• Work with GTM, Sales, and Support on training, FAQs, and enablement materials

• Lead Release Readiness Reviews and Go/No-Go decisions

• Coordinate beta programs and early access to reduce launch risk

• Drive post-release reviews and retrospectives

• Own and evolve release governance, frameworks, templates, and best practices

• Gather feedback to improve cadence, tooling, and efficiency

• Manage executive reporting, C-suite dashboards, and risk briefings

• Bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proven experience as a Release Manager or similar PMO/project leadership role

• Track record delivering complex, cross-functional software releases

• Strong knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Git, Aha, and release tooling

• Solid understanding of SDLC/PDLC and agile delivery

• Strong risk management and problem-solving ability

• Excellent stakeholder communication and influencing skills

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives

We're an award-winning organisation driven by curiosity, positivity, and ambition. Well-being and work-life balance are as important as performance, with hybrid working and modern collaborative offices.

• United - Better together

• Agile - Be the change

• Trusted - Do the right thing

• Driven - Make it happen

• 25 days holiday + public holidays (increases with service)

• 4% matched pension

• Income protection & life assurance

• Private medical insurance

• Employee benefits platform

• 24/7 EAP

• 100 fitness allowance

• Dell discounts

• Paid study leave & volunteering days

• Car scheme