Release Manager

ReqRoute,Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ReqRoute,Inc in Chicago, IL is seeking an experienced Release Manager to coordinate monthly releases for the Cash Portfolio, managing calendars, dependencies, and governance.

The role also covers PMO duties: program scheduling, annual planning, RAID logs, governance reporting, and financial tracking with Clarity portfolio management.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on release management experience and strong governance skills.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex release calendars and dependencies.
• Excellent communication across technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate monthly releases for Cash Portfolio; align readiness and execution.
• Maintain and govern the Monthly Release Calendar; map dependencies.
• Identify and resolve release clashes and conflicts; respond to scheduling queries.
• Prepare release decks; ensure correct versions and tight change control.
• Create and track the Release runbook; facilitate stakeholder reviews.
• Lead release communications from pre-release to post-release updates.
• Coordinate deployment activities across Capability, Tech, SQM and Business teams.
• Log post-release issues; record ownership and prioritize with impact.
• Apply CRM processes; maintain governance and audit readiness.
• Maintain release artefacts with version control and audit readiness.
• PMO tasks: program scheduling, annual planning, RAID log maintenance.
• Produce project status reports and governance updates; support audits.
• Coordinate collection of initiative release readiness material; financial tracking.

Skills

Release Management

Process Governance

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Clarity

PPM

Job description

Role: Release Manager
Chicago, IL
Onsite

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• Release Management
• Process Governance
• PM tools like Clarity / PPM
• Excellent communication skills

Job Description/Responsibilities

Release Manager Responsibilities:

• Aligned to directly coordinate the readiness and execution of monthly releases for the Cash Portfolio;
• Prepare, maintain, and govern the Monthly Release Calendar, ensuring dependencies are mapped; Proactively identify and resolve release clashes and dependency conflicts.
• Respond to release scheduling queries, resolve conflicts and facilitate release related forums and calls
• Support preparation of release decks, ensuring correct versions are used, changes are tightly controlled once baselined
• Create, maintain and track the Release runbook, facilitate reviews with the relevant stakeholders
• Orchestrate execution of the agreed runbook including opening and managing release chats
• Lead release communications covering pre-release readiness, Go/No-Go outcomes, post release confirmation and updates
• Coordinate release deployment activities across Capability, Technology, SQM and Business stakeholders
• Log and track post release issues, clearly recording ownership; Facilitate issue triage meetings to capture root causes and prioritise issues based on impacts
• Apply CRM processes consistently across releases, ensuring adherence to governance standards and audit expectations.
• Maintain and manage release documentation and folders, ensuring artefacts are organised, version controlled, and audit ready

PMO Responsibilities:

• Program level scheduling including features by release
• Annual planning, resource forecasting and maintenance
• Initiative level Governance, maintain central RAID log, support stakeholder communications
• Project Status Reporting and Governance updates
• Support Internal program Audit
• Coordinate the collation of Initiative release readiness material
• Financial tracking & reporting
• Financial planning and administration - monthly/quarterly Clarity portfolio management & reporting, Clarity admin support updates resource forecasting support, Task creation and resource addition through the year supporting implementation leads