[Remote] Manager Development

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dayforce is a global human capital management company offering a unified Cloud HCM platform for the global workforce. The Manager, Release Management leads a team and oversees release planning, readiness governance, risk management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination to deliver reliable and predictable software releases. The role also drives automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled improvements in release quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing release management team responsible for monolithic and microservices releases, fostering ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Establish clear operating practices, performance expectations, and measures of success for the release management function
• Oversee release planning and coordination across products and services, including release schedules, deployment windows, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment
• Lead release-readiness and Go/No-Go governance, ensuring decisions are based on clear criteria, reliable information, and appropriate cross-functional input
• Define, communicate, and continuously improve release-readiness and release-exit criteria across Product and Technology
• Ensure release risks, exceptions, decisions, and key information are identified early, actively managed, accurately documented, and clearly communicated
• Maintain consistent release reporting, dashboards, audit evidence, procedures, and decision records to support operational transparency and compliance
• Drive improvements in release quality and predictability through root-cause analysis, automation, standardization, self-service capabilities, and modern release management, DevOps, and AI-enabled practices
• Identify practical opportunities to use AI to improve release planning, risk identification, readiness assessment, reporting, communications, and post-release learning
• Use AI and automation to reduce repetitive administrative work, enabling Release Managers to focus on judgment, coordination, and risk management
• Measure the value of AI-enabled practices through outcomes such as reduced manual effort, earlier risk detection, improved predictability, and stronger stakeholder confidence

Skills

• Experience leading and developing a high-performing release management team responsible for monolithic and microservices releases, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Experience establishing clear operating practices, performance expectations, and success measures for a release management function
• Experience overseeing release planning and coordination across products and services, including schedules, deployment windows, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience leading release-readiness and Go/No-Go governance, ensuring decisions are based on clear criteria, reliable information, and cross-functional input
• Experience managing release risks, exceptions, decisions, reporting, documentation, and audit evidence while ensuring information is communicated effectively
• Experience improving release quality and predictability through root-cause analysis, standardized practices, automation, self-service capabilities, and modern DevOps and AI-enabled approaches
• Experience working in Agile, Lean, DevOps, or product operating models
• Familiarity with ITIL, change enablement, or other IT service management frameworks
• Experience managing releases across a combination of cloud-native services, microservices, platform components, and large enterprise applications
• Experience improving or automating release controls, readiness checks, reporting, or deployment workflows
• Experience supporting regulated, audited, or compliance-sensitive software delivery environments
• Experience introducing AI-assisted tools or workflows within an operational, delivery, or program management function

Benefits

• Dayforce employees and their families are eligible to participate in medical, dental, vison, and life insurance benefits programs.
• Dayforce employees are also eligible to participate in a 401k plan (plus match).
• Dayforce employees are also eligible to participate in a Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employees receive unlimited Time Away From Work (in lieu of accrued vacation time).
• 10 paid US holidays.
• Up to 80 hours of paid sick time.
• 17 weeks of paid parental leave, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program.
• Volunteer days.
• Opportunities to thrive both in your career and personal life.

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