Senior Technical Program Manager - Release Management

responsible for serving a portfolio of value streams that feed into an enterprise SaaS product, with the goal of accelerating the delivery of value to customers. The team is composed of highly skilled practitioners who have expertise in their respective areas and work collaboratively to ensure that value streams are delivering maximum value. The team is committed to driving innovation, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction, and is focused on accelerating better outcomes for our people and our customers.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Product Operations Release Engineer to join our team. We are passionate about cultivating an effective, outcome-focused environment that drives excellence and accelerates the customer experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage your strong leadership skills, promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, and championing best practices in program management and execution to support our product initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Technical Acumen: Apply your familiarity with software development processes to guide project planning and execution, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.

• Customer Experience: Focus on the customer experience (internal and external), with an ability to leverage a customer-centric lens to represent the customers' needs and preferences within a program or initiative.

• Problem Solving: Analyze complex challenges that arise during project execution, identify root causes, and drive development of innovative solutions to overcome them.

• Program Management: Assist in leading complex, cross-function program activities, ensuring alignment with program outcomes and timelines. Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to facilitate communication and resolve issues.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross functional global teams to understand project requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality software solutions. Foster collaboration and communication among team members to achieve project milestones.

• Learn and Grow: Engage in continuous learning opportunities, participate in Guilds, and be curious.

• Process Improvement: Contribute to continual process improvement initiatives to enhance program delivery efficiency and effectiveness.

• Risk Management: Identify program risks and issues early and assist in developing mitigation strategies. Monitor risks throughout the program lifecycle and escalate as needed to ensure timely resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

• 3+ years of experience in Release Management or related role in a SaaS organization, with a strong understanding of Agile methodologies, project management and release management tools and concepts.

• Demonstrate experience with the full release management lifecycle including scheduling, coordinating, and the management of releases across multiple environments.

• Proven understanding of change management principles and practices, change control activities and change request processing.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills required to lead large cross functional global teams throughout the release cycle.

• Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.

• High ownership and accountability mindset and ability to work in a fast-paced team environment

• Perform in a hybrid-office role, requiring three or more days per week in the office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Out-of-the-box thinker and results-driven problem solver, who is excited to dive into tough problems, and committed to delivering clear business outcomes.

• Implement systems and processes that enable informed and data-driven decision making

• Develop and streamline processes to scale Release Management

• Partner closely with cross functional teams to improve the overall customer experience

• Practice continuous learning, including the ability to ask relevant questions to understand requirements and context, as well as ability to receive and incorporate feedback

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, ServiceNow, and PowerBI

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ultimate Kronos Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

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Disability Accommodation

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email [email protected].

The pay range for this position is $96,900 to $139,300, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at https://https://www.ukg.com/careers