Release Manager
Nvidia · Ra'anana
NVIDIA Networking team is looking for an outstanding candidate who thrives in a multifaceted environment, to facilitate managing SW Releases for our leading SW products by taking responsibility for cross projects activities. In addition, ensure releases are delivered on time and in high quality, coordinate between development and testing groups and between global SW groups. The role will require to gain good understanding of products’ dependencies.
What you’ll be doing:
- Be an effective leader in crafting and driving a delivery of high quality SW in an efficient way.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Architecture and Marketing across the globe to coordinate the release of products and ensure release will meet the schedule and with high quality. In parallel, partner with the QA teams to ensure alignment of all tests between the development, verification and QA groups.
- Take full ownership of projects from kickoff to signoff.
- Manage multiple parallel releases with strong attention to detail, ensuring clarity, alignment, and consistent communication across teams while tracking dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
- Maintain clear, up-to-date visibility of the release status, ensuring all stakeholders have an accurate understanding of progress, next steps, priorities, and risks at any given time.
- Support Senior Release Managers with release activities.
- Own and manage selected cross-products topics (e.g., customer bugs, release checklists, RCAs, Triage, define and improve processes).
- Conduct release meetings and communicate release status. Resolve issues when they appear and raise red flags when needed. Work with planning and tracking systems to lead the release progress, and build release indicators.
What we need to see:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or industrial Engineering with technical experience.
- 3+ years of proven experience as a Release manager or SW project leadership.
- Great interpersonal skills.
- Agility with multi-tasking abilities and work in an independent and organized way.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking and critical thinking abilities.
- Ability to self-manage, self-start, lead technically and communicate effectively.
- Excellent presentation skills and eloquent English. Public speaking required.
- Experience in leading global projects.
- Proficiency with tools such as MS Excel, Atlassian Confluence, enterprise ticket system e.g. Redmine, Jira, TFS.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Proficiency with BI tools e.g. MS PowerBI
- Good technical knowhow and familiarity with Networking and Cloud technologies
- Experience with Agile software development methodology and practices
- Linux OS technologies knowledge
- Github knowledge