Job Description
Overview
As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people's curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.
The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We are building modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery's future.
Responsibilities
We are hiring release managers to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technical operations and workflows which give the organization a competitive edge and improve developer efficiencies.
The Release Manager will oversee a number of key functions within the product development environment that enable the delivery of a high-quality service to end users, and to ensure when we release changes to the service, it meets the business needs. This position is a stakeholder facing role and requires that you establish and manage expectations within the business and drive the client teams to achieve those expectations to a high standard.
The ideal candidate will also have a track record of having managed releases at a global scale, multi-platform systems, with teams distributed internationally. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to others.
Qualifications
• Operational and release management experience in an agile framework within a media or technology company preferred.
• Understanding of branching strategy, semantic versioning, sprint planning, dependency management, different test activities and release tracking.
• Experience of working with frontend (iOS, Android, Web, Roku, CTV) and backend engineering and QA teams to coordinate dependencies and release planning
• Experience in leading and reporting on deploying Release Candidates across multiple products in multiple regions.
• Experience in large scale global product launches thru a scalable automated release pipeline workflow leveraging CICD workflows and QA automation workflows.
• Experience working with global teams comprising of product, engineering, QA, operations functional areas.
• Experience using various tools and technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
• Experience working with DevOps teams to drive improvements in Release Tools pipeline for automated tracking and reporting on release artifacts : JIRA items, sprint scope, bug report, test report, release notes.
• Coordinate and track 3rd party releases and ensure releases do not conflict with other releases and events
• Excellent communication skills; able to champion the process, tools, and touchpoints.
• Exceptional organizational skill, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to work well in a matrix environment with internationally based teams
• A proven track record of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and take initiative, a self-starter
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