Release Manager, Product Development (Remote - US)

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Product Management
Nextech

Nextech

Nextech is a leading healthcare technology solution provider for specialty physicians, offering fully integrated Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR) and Practice Management software. With a focus on efficiency, accuracy, and profitability, Nextech ser...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 1997
$1M raised

Description

  • Own and maintain release calendars across the product development portfolio.
  • Define release scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
  • Coordinate planning across development, testing, and deployment phases.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for release execution across Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps.
  • Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and stakeholder communications.
  • Ensure testing standards, acceptance criteria, quality gates, documentation, and approvals are in place.
  • Manage production deployment schedules, including release windows, sequencing, rollback plans, and contingency plans.
  • Identify, track, mitigate, and escalate release risks and blockers as needed.
  • Partner with DevOps to improve release automation, CI/CD usage, reliability, repeatability, and deployment speed.
  • Support early adopter and limited-release programs, including feature enablement, access management, controlled rollouts, and transition to general availability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
  • Proven experience working in product development environments.
  • Experience supporting SaaS-based software products.
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and modern SDLC practices.
  • Hands-on experience using Jira for planning, tracking, and release coordination.
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and DevOps collaboration models.
  • Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to coordinate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Experience working in health technology or regulated software environments (preferred).
  • Prior ownership of release management for multi-team or multi-product portfolios (preferred).
  • Experience with feature flag and release management tools such as LaunchDarkly (preferred).
  • Experience using and enabling agentic AI capabilities within the Product Development Lifecycle (preferred).

Benefits

  • Generous annual bonus opportunity.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • 11 paid holidays.
  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
  • Health Savings Account with employer match and Flexible Spending Account.
  • 100% company-paid parental leave after 6 months.
  • 100% company-paid life insurance plus short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Wellness program with discounts on medical premiums.
  • Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions.
  • Corporate discounts on retail, travel, and entertainment.

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