Release Manager - Iguazio

Are you driven by the opportunity to tackle complex challenges and work alongside top leaders? Do you want to be part of a team that delivers outcomes that others simply can’t? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Who You'll Work With
Iguazio is a leading AI and machine learning company based in Herzliya. Recognized for helping enterprises deliver enterprise-wide analytics at scale, Iguazio’s advanced Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipeline enables clients to streamline and manage their AI, from the initial concept all the way to production, in a simplified and automated manner.
This role orchestrates cross-functional activities to ensure smooth progression through all release milestones, from kickoff to General Availability (GA).
This position is reporting to the Director of Program Management, and working in close collaboration with Product Managers, R&D Team Leads and developers (QA, DevOps, Dev. Teams).
Your impact within our firm
As a Release Manager, you will drive the end-to-end release lifecycle, ensuring alignment among teams and stakeholders. You will track and monitor release tasks across Development, QA, DevOps, and Documentation, acting as the central contact for milestone tracking and updates using tools like Slack, JIRA, and GitHub. Identifying and escalating delays, risks, or blockers for timely resolution is crucial to your role.
You will manage inter-team and inter-component dependencies, resolving or escalating gaps to ensure smooth integration of incremental feature development into the main branch. Monitoring feature milestones and readiness for QA, you will communicate intermediate deliverables and coordinate the verification of deliverables merged into GitHub, with JIRA tickets linked to PRs. Ensuring successful CI/CD pipeline completion and system tests, you will escalate issues as needed and facilitate the timely creation and release of builds to QA, ensuring testing readiness.
By overseeing feature verification progress using JIRA dashboards, you will facilitate bug screening with QA, Development, Product, and Architecture teams. Executing security scans and managing vulnerabilities for compliance and release readiness are essential tasks. You will maintain and enforce compliance with predefined release criteria, compiling and reviewing release communications with stakeholders to ensure everyone is informed and aligned.
In this role, your ability to manage multiple moving parts and communicate effectively across teams will be key to ensuring successful and timely releases.
Your qualifications and skills
Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams
Proficiency in software development and management tools (e.g., JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, dashboards)
Proven problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking abilities
Self-management skills with the ability to take initiative, make decisions and deliver under pressure
Understanding of R&D processes and best practices
Coding and/or scripting skills to support automation and troubleshooting
Knowledge of Git, Jenkins, and monitoring/security tools
Experience with software build processes, version control systems, and QA workflows
Ability to understand code
Strong multitasking capabilities and a determination to drive success