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Job Title: Senior Release Manager
About the Role
The Senior Release Manager is a strategic leader within the Release Management function at NiCE CXone. This role owns and drives enterprise-wide release strategy, governance, and execution for our mission-critical, industry-leading customer interaction management platform. The Senior Release Manager partners closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations leadership to ensure predictable, high-quality, and highly available SaaS releases that meet a 99.99% uptime SLA, while continuously evolving release practices through automation and operational excellence.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Own and evolve enterprise release management strategy, governance frameworks, and best practices across NiCE CXone.
- Lead planning, orchestration, and execution of complex, large-scale SaaS releases spanning multiple teams, services, and deployment models.
- Serve as the primary release authority, ensuring readiness, risk assessment, and go/no-go decision-making aligned with business priorities.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, Operations, Security, Support, and other stakeholders to align dependencies, and release outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement of release processes, change management, and automation across the SDLC to increase reliability and reduce operational risk.
- Oversee testing strategies and environment readiness, ensuring quality gates and validation standards are met prior to release.
- Champion ITIL-aligned Change and Problem Management practices, including post-release reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Lead early customer access and beta programs, managing communication plans, success metrics, and escalation paths.
- Mentor and guide Release Managers and cross-functional teams on release best practices, tooling, and execution standards.
- Act as a senior point of escalation during release-related incidents, coordinating response and resolution across teams.
- Represent Release Management in executive and customer-facing communications with clarity, confidence, and accountability.
- Provide leadership and oversight for releases during off-hours, including nights and weekends, as required.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- 3+ years of experience working within the SDLC in enterprise SaaS environments, with significant ownership of release management functions.
- 1+ years of experience leading complex, concurrent software releases in a senior Release Manager or similar role.
- Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployment strategies (monolith and microservices).
- Strong knowledge of ITIL Change and Problem Management, release governance, and risk management principles.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence without authority, and drive alignment at senior levels.
- Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, with a strong focus on quality and operational resilience.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to executive audiences.
- Experience with release automation, tooling, and metrics to improve deployment reliability and transparency.
- Background in software engineering, DevOps, or QA/testing is highly desirable.
What’s in It for You
- Ownership of release strategy for a highly available, enterprise-scale SaaS platform.
- Opportunity to shape and mature release management practices across a global organization.
- Exposure to advanced CI/CD, cloud-native, and microservices architectures.
- High visibility, influence, and impact across product, engineering, and operations leadership.
Enjoy NiCE-FLEX!
- At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere
Reporting Into: Engineering Manager, Release Management
Role Type: Individual Contributor
About NiCE
NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.
Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.
NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years working within the SDLC in enterprise SaaS environments with ownership of release management
- 1+ years leading complex, concurrent software releases in a senior Release Manager or similar role
- Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployment strategies
- Strong knowledge of ITIL Change and Problem Management, release governance, and risk management
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders
- Experience with release automation, tooling, and release/deployment metrics
- Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills focused on quality and operational resilience
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive presentations
- Availability to provide leadership and oversight for releases during off-hours (nights and weekends) as required
- Background in software engineering, DevOps, or QA/testing
NICE Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as broad and comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental-health support. Added programs like FSA options and fitness stipends contribute to a well-rounded health and wellness offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) is part of the package, sometimes paired with match details that are described as typical to stronger depending on role and time period. Employee stock participation is also positioned as an additional long-term wealth-building component for eligible roles.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work arrangements are emphasized, including hybrid setups and remote options for some roles. Flex scheduling, paid holidays, and paid sick time add to the perceived flexibility of the overall rewards package.
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What We Do
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com.
