Optery is seeking a hands-on Technical Release Program Manager to lead our product and platform release process across web, backend, and mobile applications. This is an execution-focused role for someone who can work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to ensure that every release is planned, tested, documented, and communicated. The role requires strong front-end and mobile application development experience, preferably in JavaScript and React.
Key ResponsibilitiesOwn Optery’s release calendar and cadence across frontend, backend, and mobile, and ensure it is kept in sync with sprint plans and business priorities.
Participate in sprint planning and backlog grooming to confirm work is properly ticketed, scoped, and sequenced for release
Coordinate and manage release readiness: confirm all testing is complete, environments are available, dependencies are resolved, and rollback/mitigation steps are defined.
QA and Testing: perform detailed QA and testing of new releases, provide feedback and resolve issues.
Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for release execution, bridging engineering, product, marketing, customer-facing, and business teams so all parties know what is shipping and when.
Document and distribute release notes and change communications for internal audiences; ensure customer-facing teams have what they need for external communication.
Track and surface release risks, blockers, and post-release issues; support troubleshooting with engineering and QA as needed.
Propose and implement incremental improvements to the release process (checklists, templates, metrics) to increase predictability and reduce manual work.
5+ years of experience in release management, software delivery, software QA and testing, and/or technical program/project management in a software/SaaS environment.
Prior exposure to one or more adjacent areas such as frontend development, mobile app development, backend/services, product management, QA, or technical troubleshooting.
Strong practical experience with work-tracking tools such as Jira and with Agile/Scrum sprint ceremonies.
Ability to coordinate teams in multiple time zones.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide concise status, risk, and schedule updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable operating in a high-growth, remote, startup environment.
Experience supporting mobile store releases (Apple App Store, Google Play).
Javascript and React frontend development experience
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and git-based workflows.
Experience working with products in privacy, security, or data domains.
Experience supporting releases in environments aligned to SOC 2 or similar frameworks.
This is a remote-first position. Optery is a fully remote global team with worldwide headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Compensation$75K - $125K
Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit factor.
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What We Do
Optery is the first company to offer a free report with dozens of screenshots showing where your personal information is being posted by hundreds of data brokers online, and the first to offer IT teams a completely self-service platform for finding and removing employee personal information from the web. Optery subscription plans automatically remove customers from these sites, clearing your home address, phone number, email, and other personal information from the Internet at scale. The service provides users with a proactive defense against escalating PII-based threats such as phishing and other social engineering attacks, ransomware, credential theft, identity fraud, doxxing, and harassment. Optery has completed its AICPA SOC 2, Type II security certification, and distinguishes itself with unparalleled search technology, data removal automation, visual evidence-based before-and-after reporting, data broker coverage, and API integration options. Optery was awarded “Editors’ Choice” by PCMag.com as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, was named winner in the Employee Privacy Protection, Attack Surface Management, and Digital Footprint Management categories of the 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, received the Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Attack Surface Management by Cyber Defense Magazine in 2024, and received Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023. Hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of businesses use Optery to prevent attacks and keep their personal information off the Internet.
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We have a collaborative, thoughtful culture and we're helping make individuals and enterprises safer from physica and cyber threats.
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