Corporate Release Manager

Job Description

As Corporate Release Manager, you are responsible for the end-to-end coordination of the corporate release events, known as Flex & Continuous Delivery (CD) Releases. You ensure that these releases are planned, prepared, executed, and followed up in a controlled, secure, and predictable manner.

You orchestrate collaboration among participating application and delivery teams, operational domains, infrastructure teams, and external partners. In doing so, you oversee interdependencies, risks, readiness criteria, decision points, and the release schedule.

The role is highly cross-functional and is performed through collaboration, influence, and clear communication rather than hierarchical authority. The Corporate Release Manager is accountable for the orchestration and governance of the entire Flex and CD Release events, but not for delivering individual changes. Development, testing, and technical implementation remain the responsibility of the relevant delivery teams and service owners.

You work closely with Change Management, with a clearly differentiated focus: Change Management manages individual changes and approvals, while Corporate Release Management coordinates the combined Flex/CD Release events.

Responsibilities

• You are responsible for the end-to-end coordination of corporate Flex and CD Releases involving multiple applications, domains, delivery teams, and service providers.
• You manage the corporate Release calendar, including milestones, preparation activities, governance checkpoints, decision points, and deployment windows.
• Coordinate all stakeholders involved, including development teams, application owners, infrastructure teams, operations, testing, Change Management, and external delivery partners.
• You assess applications and changes proposed for participation and verify that entry criteria and lifecycle requirements have been met.
• You maintain an end-to-end overview of release readiness, cross-application dependencies, risks, constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
• You organize and facilitate release governance, readiness reviews, and go/no-go checkpoints, with timely escalation of unresolved risks and dependencies.
• You verify that participating teams have complete implementation, validation, rollback, recovery, communication, and support plans.
• You coordinate execution during the deployment window and provide a central, up-to-date overview of progress, issues, decisions, and release status.
• You coordinate post-release follow-up, including production incidents, outstanding actions, and lessons learned.
• You continuously improve planning, governance, readiness criteria, reporting, tooling, automation, and collaboration.
• You define and monitor release KPIs, such as deployment success, failed or rolled-back changes, post-release incidents, milestone adherence, and release predictability.