Expectations

1. Scope & Complexity : You drive projects across more than one team, you have experience managing dependencies and stakeholders from external teams. You're able to take an ambiguous problem statement related to your subject-matter area to drive project deliverables over multiple iterations to achieve the right outcome. 

2. Decision Making : You are able to act as a representative for your area autonomously. Your decisions are right, far more often than not. You play a leadership role in your team: they look to you for advice on the technical and business issues. 

3. Execution : You get a lot done and you make others around you more productive. You have a company wide view of how your programs or projects impact the bottom line and you constantly think about how to improve our ability to deliver large projects. 

4. Operations : You apply processes and standards thoughtfully with bias towards automation, identifying the right amount of process and structure to achieve the correct outcome with the least overhead. 

5. Influence : You play a leadership role in your team: they look to you for advice on the product direction, technical designs, and operations. 

6. Communication : Your written and verbal communication skills are exemplary, concise and to the point, making you the initial point of contact for business and technical stakeholders. You are the point of contact for data related to your product, services, and features.

Skills

1. Operational and release management experience in an agile framework within a media or technology company preferred.

2. Understanding of branching strategy, semantic versioning, sprint planning, dependency management, different test activities and release tracking. 

3. Experience of working with frontend (iOS, Android, Web, Roku, CTV) and backend engineering and QA teams to coordinate dependencies and release planning  

4. Experience in leading and reporting on deploying Release Candidates across multiple products in multiple regions. 

5. Experience in large scale global product launches thru a scalable automated release pipeline workflow leveraging CICD workflows and QA automation workflows. 

6. Experience working with global teams comprising of product, engineering, QA, operations functional areas. 

7. Experience using various tools and technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub

8. Experience working with DevOps teams to drive improvements in Release Tools pipeline for automated tracking and reporting on release artifacts : JIRA items, sprint scope, bug report, test report, release notes. 

9. Coordinate and track 3rd party releases and ensure releases do not conflict with other releases and events 

10. Excellent communication skills; able to champion the process, tools, and touchpoints. 

11. Exceptional organizational skill, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail

12. Ability to work well in a matrix environment with internationally based teams

13. A proven track record of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment

14. Ability to work independently and take initiative, a self-starter