Release Manager

Job Description 

About Us:

Innovapptive is a category-defining SaaS company building the world’s most advanced AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for the industrial sector. Headquartered in Houston, TX, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Innovapptive is on a mission to reimagine how industrial work gets done — connecting frontline workers, back-office systems, and assets in real time to drive higher safety, reliability, and productivity.

Our platform is trusted by some of the world’s largest enterprises — including Shell, Hess, Cenovus Energy, W.R.Grace, Westlake Chemicals, UNICEF, Kimberly Clark, Scott Miracle Gro, and Newmont Mining to name a few, and across chemicals, energy, mining, and manufacturing industries. These customers have achieved tangible, hard-dollar results, such as:

• Over $40 million in annual EBITDA savings at a single enterprise.
• 10× frontline productivity improvements through mobile-first and AI-enabled workflows.
• 15–20% maintenance cost reductions and significant uptime gains across plants and sites.

Innovapptive is recognized by leading industry analysts for its differentiated value creation model:

• Named a Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Connected Worker Radar.
• Featured by Gartner in “Connected Factory Worker” research and the Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy.
• Cited by LNS Research for delivering 3–5× greater value than point solutions through unified OT–IT execution, AI/vision innovation, and field-proven ROI.

Our growth is backed by Tiger Global Management and Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s premier software investors, known for scaling high-performance SaaS companies. Together, we are building the next-generation AI Powered Connected Worker Platform, combining cutting-edge technologies — SLM’s, Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Orchestration — into a unified system that transforms plant operations globally.

Today, with over 300+ employees across the U.S., India, and ANZ, Innovapptive stands at a pivotal inflection point: with an ambition to scale to $100M ARR within the next 3-4 years by industrializing every aspect of our product, engineering, and customer delivery systems.
 

The Role

As a Release Manager you are responsible for the continuous delivery of application releases supporting business critical services.. You are able to leverage product and program management practices to define and lead innovative initiatives focused on product availability, customer experience, application ownership and continuous delivery. You use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead deployments of major product releases, feature releases and patches in a SaaS environment.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• You are a Multiplier and constantly look for ways to make other teams successful. You understand that the success and productivity of the hundreds of scrum teams you interact with is critical to enabling continuous change.
• You combine customer empathy and your passion for moving fast to deliver frequent, high quality releases that benefit our customers and partners and motivate our engineers.
• You are a bold leader who is visionary, makes data-informed decisions, takes calculated risks and is effective at influencing all levels of stakeholders. You are able to communicate clearly to everyone from Executives to individual contributors. You love working with customers and partners; every decision you make is with Customer Trust in mind.
• You seek opportunities to be mentored and to mentor others. You have a beginners mindset and an insatiable desire to learn. You leverage the analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills that you learned through your bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or another interesting field to lead cross-functional teams and deliver revolutionary solutions.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Technical program or engineering management experience at an enterprise technology company.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of the SaaS business model and its product development lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation.
• Has to work with stakeholders to ensure timely releases
• Strong at change control and change mgmt
• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
• Building and managing Jira dashboards for releases
• Planned vs Actuals 
• Capacity utilisation
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives, and technical, and non-technical team members.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
• Ability to master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
• Exposure to data analytics and reporting is definitely advantageous (any CRM reporting tool)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to successfully partner with all functions across the entire company.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Requirements:

• Familiar with Service Ownership and DevOps best practices.
• Experience managing SaaS Cloud Application releases.
• Familiarity with compliance and security standards, policies, and risk management.
• Public cloud infrastructure knowledge.
• Comfortable bending between the tactical and strategic.
• Ability to manage/juggle multiple priorities without loss of efficiency.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation and equity tied to measurable impact on AI accuracy and performance.
• A platform to shape the semantic intelligence layer of a category-defining industrial SaaS company.
• Access to cutting-edge AI, data, and observability toolchains for continuous learning and innovation.

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.