Portfolio Release Manager

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

Portfolio Release Manager – Flights
 

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:

Priceline is seeking a Portfolio Release Manager to join our Flights team in Berlin. This role centers on orchestrating the successful delivery of releases and the management of our Flight Supply & Agent Servicing Platform. As a Release Manager, you ensure that Product and Engineering teams deliver with quality, timing, and alignment, while continuously improving the release process to support agility, scale, and compliance. 

You will partner with Product Management, Engineering, and various other teams in Priceline, along with our Suppliers and Partners. You will work with teams that focus on our Supply Platform and our Agent Servicing platform. 

We are looking for a Delivery Lead—someone who can effectively bridge Product and Engineering, drive execution against business and product strategy, and ensure complex initiatives are delivered successfully.

In this role you will get to:

• Release Planning & Coordination

  • Own and maintain the Platform 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 Engineering 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 bring in 5 -7  years of  strong Agile and Project/Program Management experience, with a solid understanding of how release management integrates into iterative delivery models.

• You’ve led or supported cross-functional release planning, coordinated dependencies across multiple teams, and ensured smooth delivery through disciplined execution and continuous improvement.

• You’re fluent in Agile ceremonies, metrics, and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar) and can apply them pragmatically to drive outcomes.

• You understand the importance of governance, communication, and stakeholder management in scaling delivery across a portfolio.

• 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.

• 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

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

• 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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