Portfolio Release Manager

Portfolio Release Manager Join to apply for the Portfolio Release Manager role at Priceline Role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office 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. Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. Who We Are We’re a cutting‑edge global travel technology company dedicated to providing the best travel experience for our customers. Our culture values innovation, teamwork, and delivering results. Flexible work at Priceline Hybrid working model with two days onsite at a location chosen by you and your manager (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). Remaining days can be remote or in office. Inclusion We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work. Equal Opportunity Employment Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. Applying for this position For all current employees, please use the internal portal to find jobs and apply. 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