Release Manager

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried

Compensation: Base Salary, Bonus, Benefits

Job Description 

About Us:

At Innovapptive, we are bringing the industrial front-line worker, back-office and assets together. Our platform is the only patented and “Code-Free” connected worker platform for SAP and IBM Maximo and is disrupting and digitizing archaic, tedious, & labor intensive paper-based processes for maintenance, operations, & supply chain. The industrial front-line workers are empowered with a suite of highly reconfigurable mobile apps, while the back-office has real-time visibility into the front-line workforce with better planning, scheduling, adoption monitoring and actionable insights. Some of the world’s largest brands such as Newmont Mining, Dominion Nuclear, Hess, Shell, UNICEF, ConocoPhillips, Reckitt Benckiser are digitally transforming their back-office and front-line industrial worker experiences. We are saving companies millions of dollars by improving their asset uptime, productivity, safety, and talent challenges, while delivering jobs better, faster, cheaper and safer. 

We are backed by Tiger Global Management, a Global Marquee Fund with over $30 Billion of Assets Under Management (AUM). Tiger Global Management has a reputation of investing and building some of the world's "Unicorn"​ brands such as Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Peloton, Harry's, Ola, Flipkart, Freshworks and many more!

Recently we have announced our Series B funding led by Vista Equity Partners, a leading global technology investor, with participation from Tiger Global Management, our existing Series A investor. Vista invests in mission-critical software businesses that have a clear purpose and a demonstrated track record of success, such as Innovapptive.

Our mission is made possible by Innovapptive’s most important asset: our people. We come together through collaboration and ambition in a team-driven culture. Through the success of our product, we have seen monumental growth in our workforce, and we constantly look for exceptional talent to join us. At Innovapptive, you are challenged with dynamic tasks that drive your professional development and career growth. Join us on our journey to deliver an innovative connected worker experience and to empower 350 Million Industrial Front-Line Workers around the world with the ability to truly harness the power of connected worker experience by improving the working life of a front-line worker and the back-office employee.

The Role

As a Release Manager you are responsible for the continuous delivery of application releases supporting business critical services.. You are able to leverage product and program management practices to define and lead innovative initiatives focused on product availability, customer experience, application ownership and continuous delivery. You use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead deployments of major product releases, feature releases and patches in a SaaS environment.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• You are a Multiplier and constantly look for ways to make other teams successful. You understand that the success and productivity of the hundreds of scrum teams you interact with is critical to enabling continuous change.
• You combine customer empathy and your passion for moving fast to deliver frequent, high quality releases that benefit our customers and partners and motivate our engineers.
• You are a bold leader who is visionary, makes data-informed decisions, takes calculated risks and is effective at influencing all levels of stakeholders. You are able to communicate clearly to everyone from Executives to individual contributors. You love working with customers and partners; every decision you make is with Customer Trust in mind.
• You seek opportunities to be mentored and to mentor others. You have a beginners mindset and an insatiable desire to learn. You leverage the analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills that you learned through your bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or another interesting field to lead cross-functional teams and deliver [r]evolutionary solutions.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Technical program or engineering management experience at an enterprise technology company.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of the SaaS business model and its product development lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation.
• Has to work with stakeholders to ensure timely releases
• Strong at change control and change mgmt
• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives, and technical, and non-technical team members.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
• Ability to master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
• Exposure to data analytics and reporting is definitely advantageous (any CRM reporting tool)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to successfully partner with all functions across the entire company.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Requirements:

• Familiar with Service Ownership and DevOps best practices.
• Experience managing SaaS Cloud Application releases.
• Familiarity with compliance and security standards, policies, and risk management.
• Public cloud infrastructure knowledge.
• Comfortable bending between the tactical and strategic.
• Ability to manage/juggle multiple priorities without loss of efficiency.

What We Offer:

• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promoting high performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.