Software Release Orchestrator

Aspen Technology; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspen Technology is seeking a Release Manager/Product Operations professional to coordinate release readiness across technical, commercial, deployment, and enablement domains. You will connect product capabilities with customer deployment requirements, pricing strategy, and go-to-market readiness to support successful launches.

The role demands strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to organize complex information into concise, actionable recommendations that improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Product Management, or a related field required.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Project management skills will be helpful in facilitating the various tasks effectively.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience will be considered.
• Experience supporting release management, product operations, commercial strategy, go-to-market planning, pricing, deployment planning, enablement, or a related software business function.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate collection of release readiness inputs across technical readiness, quality, commercial readiness, deployment readiness, and enablement readiness.
• Validate and organize cross-functional readiness data to ensure completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
• Maintain release readiness tracking and support decision-ready reporting for governance reviews.
• Synthesize readiness inputs into concise release summaries highlighting risks, dependencies, gaps, and recommended actions.
• Identify patterns across product, operational, and commercial readiness activities to improve release execution.
• Connect product capabilities with customer deployment requirements, enablement activities, and commercial implications.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Services, Sales Enablement, and other stakeholders to improve release visibility and accountability.
• Support alignment between release enablement, deployment approaches, commercial models, pricing strategy, and broader go-to-market initiatives.
• Facilitate communication across functional teams to ensure readiness activities remain aligned throughout the release lifecycle.
• Support release governance forums by preparing materials, documenting decisions, tracking action items, and following up with stakeholders.
• Help improve release management templates, scorecards, dashboards, and operating mechanisms across the product portfolio.
• Support additional initiatives related to release strategy, launch planning, portfolio readiness, and operational process improvements.

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Release management

Stakeholder communication

Go-to-market planning

Pricing strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Aspen Technology is seeking a Release Manager/Product Operations professional to coordinate release readiness across technical, commercial, deployment, and enablement domains. You will connect product capabilities with customer deployment requirements, pricing strategy, and go-to-market readiness to support successful launches.

The role demands strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to organize complex information into concise, actionable recommendations that improve