Release Program Lead

About Business Unit :

The Product team forms the crux of our powerful platforms and helps connect millions of customers worldwide with the brands that matter most to them. This team of innovative problem solvers develops and builds products that position Epsilon as a differentiator, encouraging an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. Our full-cycle product engineering and data teams chart the future and set new benchmarks for our products, by using industry standard methodologies and sophisticated capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Driven by a passion for delivering smart end-to-end solutions, this team plays a key role in Epsilon’s success story.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Program Manager to own and drive the end-to-end software release quality process across our product portfolio. This role ensures that every software release meets defined quality and reliability benchmarks while enabling smooth, predictable, and efficient release management practices.

Ideal candidate will lead cross-functional initiatives across Product management, engineering, QA, Ops and Release teams to accelerate delivery, improve reliability and secure scalable deployments across our SaaS platforms.

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Responsibilities

• Release Program Leadership : Own and drive strategic DevOps programs across product teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivery timelines. Stand up and run end to end program plan for release trains across products / environments, create integrated roadmaps, manage critical paths and risks
• Release Management Plan (Program Layer) : Operationalize the Release Management Process environment promotion strategy (Dev→QA→UAT→Prod), approvals, rollback plans, and audit trail.
• CI / CD Governance : Oversee the implementation and optimization of continuous integration and delivery pipelines, ensuring automation and traceability.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Collaboration : Act as a liaison between engineering, operations, product, and leadership teams to ensure transparency and accountability on release timelines, quality. Drive release communications on progress, risks and release validations.
• Release quality and compliance : Collaborate with Engineering and QE teams to develop and enforce testing standards and acceptance criteria to meet release functional & non-functional requirements as per organizational policies, security & regulatory requirements.
• Manage risks and issues : Proactively identify risks that could impact release scope, quality or schedule and develop mitigation plans. Coordinate with release engineers on code merges, branch ramifications and manage dependencies
• Release Metrics & Continuous Improvement : Define and track release KPIs related to deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and system uptime. Conduct Release retrospectives to gather feedback, identify lessons learned and drive process improvement

Qualifications

Preferred Skills :

Additional Information

Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.

Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions every single day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.

Epsilon has a core set of 5 values that define our culture and guide us to bring value for our clients, our people and consumers. We are seeking candidates that align with our values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work :

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