Release Project Manager

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan, schedule, and control the build, test, and deployment of releases
• Organize and lead cross-functional team to ensure execution across release cycle, from planning to launch
• Enable efficient release process / governance
• Drive release and backlog planning and prioritization
• Identify, communicate and manage risks
• Identify and manage dependencies; coordinate delivery across scrum teams
• Measure release cadence and effectiveness using common metrics; own release dashboards; establish status reporting for the cross-functional teams
• Plan and lead release status review meetings with senior management; establish efficient governance to communicate status updates, risks and escalations
• Lead all change management activities and ensure timely decisions on change requests
• Collaborate with other release managers to define and improve organizational standards for release
• Work with development leadership and business development to ensure vendor service agreements and statements of work exist for personnel or project deliverables under contract to PTC.

SKILLS:

• Knowledge of Agile SCRUM software development methodology
• Proactive approach to identifying and solving problems
• Proven ability to Drive vs Coordinate to accomplish desired outcomes
• Excellent facilitator, able to drive collaboration across engineering and business teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience driving positive change via process improvement
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Data and Tools savvy

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor degree plus 3-5 years of relevant program, project and release management experience preferably with software development organizations
• Prior experience with agile development: SCRUM/Kanban/SAFE
• Comfortable with different project management tools
• PMI training / PMP certification would be a plus.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!