Manager, Release Management

Mozilla; Berlin; Remote; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A technology company is looking for a Manager for the Release Management team to oversee Firefox releases. This role involves leading a globally distributed team and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and high-quality product releases. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in team management and software release processes, particularly for mobile and desktop environments.

Leistungen

Generous performance-based bonuses

Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous retirement contributions

Quarterly wellness days

Annual professional development budget

Considerable paid parental leave

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years managing a team in software release processes.
• Experience shipping cross-platform products (mobile and desktop).
• Strong background in analytics and metrics.

Aufgaben

• Lead and support the release management team for Firefox.
• Collaborate with teams for pre-release validations.
• Design metrics and tools to measure release health.

Kenntnisse

Team management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Release automation

Cross-platform product experience

Tools

SQL

Jira

GitHub

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Manager, Release Management

Mozilla Corporation — Team: Firefox. Locations: Remote UK, Remote France, Remote US, Remote Canada, Remote Germany. To learn the Hiring Ranges for this position, please select your location from the Apply Now dropdown menu. To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this.

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About this team and role

Mozilla is looking for a manager for the Release Management team to lead the team responsible for coordinating Firefox releases across Desktop, Android, and iOS. In this role, you’ll drive the full release lifecycle - from planning and pre-release validation to post-release analysis - while empowering the teams and leadership with data-driven insights and automation.

You will lead a globally distributed team and collaborate with product, engineering, QA, security, and release engineering to ensure that Firefox delivers high-quality experiences to hundreds of millions of users. You’ll play a key role in making our release process faster, more efficient, and user-focused.

What You'll Do

• Lead and support the release management team overseeing Firefox releases on Desktop, Android, and iOS.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and execute pre-release validation strategies, ensuring timely, stable, and secure product releases with comprehensive test coverage, in-depth risk analysis, and proactive issue management before the release.
• Design and improve metrics, dashboards, and tools that inform decisions, measure quality, and track release health.
• Develop and implement processes to optimize the release cadence and support phased rollout strategies.
• Drive automation and operational excellence to scale release activities across platforms.
• Coordinate across time zones and stakeholders, including volunteers and community contributors.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience managing a team and directly overseeing software release processes in a software development organization.
• Demonstrated success shipping cross-platform products, ideally across mobile (Android & iOS) and desktop client environments.
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with metrics, telemetry, and data platforms (e.g., SQL, Looker, Redash, Tableau, custom dashboards, ETL).
• Experience with CI / CD pipelines, release tooling, version control systems, and issue tracking systems (Bugzilla, Jira, GitHub).
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, especially in remote and asynchronous settings.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and build alignment across diverse technical teams.
• Familiarity with Apple App Store / Google Play release processes, and staged rollout best practices.
• Familiarity with desktop distribution platforms (Windows store, Flatpak / Snap, deb / RPM repositories, etc).
• Experience in mobile release automation and experimentation frameworks (e.g., A / B testing).
• Background in open source development or community collaboration.
• Knowledge of software quality practices, security, performance, and privacy considerations.
• Commitment to our values:
• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

What you’ll get

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life / AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)