Product and Engineering Release Manager

OneStream Software is a company that empowers finance teams with its enterprise finance platform. The Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing software releases across multiple product and engineering teams, ensuring that releases are delivered predictably and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage end-to-end release planning and execution across multiple teams and initiatives
• Build, maintain, and continuously update release plans, timelines, and integrated schedules
• Actively manage cross-team, upstream, and downstream dependencies that impact release delivery
• Own and govern changes to the release calendar, including impact assessment and stakeholder communication
• Perform due diligence on release milestones, tracking whether milestones are met, missed, or at risk
• Identify release risks early and drive mitigation plans in partnership with Product and Engineering leaders
• Facilitate release readiness activities, including scope confirmation, dependency validation, and go/no-go discussions
• Ensure alignment between roadmap commitments, delivery plans, and release schedules
• Communicate release status, risks, and changes to stakeholders outside of Product and Engineering, including Commercialization, Support, and Customer-facing teams
• Maintain accurate release documentation and artifacts in Jira and Confluence
• Leverage data and metrics to assess release performance, predictability, and delivery trends
• Support post-release reviews and retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
• Partner with the Product and Engineering Operations team to improve release processes, tooling, and reporting
• Manage high priority initiatives as a project manager, including building project plans, tracking execution, managing risks and dependencies, and driving day today delivery in alignment with established release plans and processes
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives related to release planning, execution, and automation
• Execute the posting of approved releases to the Solution Marketplace and support customer access provisioning for paid solutions in coordination with Commercialization and Operations teams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in release management, program management, project management, or engineering operations in a software development environment
• Demonstrated experience managing complex release schedules across multiple teams
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence for planning, tracking, and documentation
• Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines in fast-paced environments
• Experience communicating status and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience supporting enterprise or platform-scale software products
• Experience with release management automation or tooling (e.g., CI/CD integrations, automated release reporting, deployment pipelines.)
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and scaled Agile delivery models
• Experience working closely with Cloud Operations, SRE, or DevOps teams
• Experience building and contributing to operational metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting
• Exposure to go-to-market readiness, commercialization, or customer-facing release coordination