Portfolio Release Manager

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Portfolio Release Manager [Developer Experience Platform]

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As a Portfolio Release Manager working within a Product Operating Model (POM) — and supporting Priceline’s Developer Experience Platform — your role centers on orchestrating the successful and predictable release of value to end users. You ensure that the  platform teams deliver with quality, timing, and alignment, while continuously improving the delivery process to support agility, scale, and compliance across the Developer Experience Platform.  

In this role you will get to:

• Lead Planning and Coordinate all Product releases 

  • Own and maintain the release calendar, working across product, engineering, QA, and operations teams to schedule and coordinate releases.

  • Ensure that releases — especially cross-team or cross-domain ones — are well-planned, communicated, and aligned to business milestones (e.g., launches, campaigns, seasonal readiness).

  • Drive release readiness checkpoints, confirming that testing, documentation, approvals, and risk assessments are complete.

•  Risk & Quality Management

  • Identify and manage risks to release quality, timing, or rollback readiness.

  • Partner with QA and SRE/DevOps to enforce release criteria, stability gates, and post-release validation processes.

  • Maintain controls required for compliance, audit, or change management (especially in regulated environments).

• Cross-Team Communication & Stakeholder Alignment

  • Serve as the central point of coordination for product and platform releases — connecting engineering, product, marketing, legal, and support.

  • Ensure key stakeholders are informed of release scope, timing, and any critical changes or incidents.

  • Help shape release notes, rollout communications, or change advisories in partnership with product managers and comms leads.

• Process Improvement & Automation

  • Continuously improve the release process, tooling, and reporting to support faster, safer, and more frequent releases.

  • Partner with DevOps, SRE, and platform teams to advance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and feature flagging strategies

  • Support the organization’s shift toward agile and continuous delivery by evolving traditional release cadences and change control practices.

• Metrics & Post-Release Analysis

  • Track and report on release health metrics (e.g., failed deployments, change lead time, change failure rate, MTTR).

  • Facilitate release retrospectives to identify and act on improvement opportunities.

  • Help assess the business and customer impact of major releases.

Who you are:

• You have 7+ years of experience in high-impact Technical Program Management role, ideally within a large-scale enterprise environment. 

• You have a demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from concept to production, encompassing engineering design, dependencies, risk mitigation and launch.

• You have significant hands-on experience managing end-to-end delivery lifecycle for iOS and Android mobile applications, including expertise in managing specific mobile application challenges such as release coordination, App Store/Google Play submission processes, beta testing programs, feature flagging, deep linking implementation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines optimized for mobile platforms. 

• You lead Program Increment (PI) planning events, including the preparation, execution and follow-up activities necessary to align business, product and engineering teams on shared objectives (OKRs), dependencies and committed features. 

• You build highly productive, collaborative relationships with diverse, distributed development teams, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Information Security, Quality Assurance (QA), Portfolio Management and Executive Leadership. 

• You enable safe, fast, and reliable delivery of value to customers.

• You act as a bridge between rapid product development and operational stability.

• You reduce friction and risk in the last mile of delivery, helping product and engineering teams move with confidence.

• A detail-oriented operator who thrives in fast-paced environments and can manage multiple competing priorities

• A strong communicator who builds bridges across technical and non-technical teams

• Proactive in identifying risks and opportunities, and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information

• Experienced in coordinating software releases, especially in complex environments with multiple dependencies

• Collaborative, organized, and solution-oriented, with a bias for action

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential

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