About This Role
This role is for a Release Manager to join the NVIDIA Networking team, focusing on facilitating software releases for leading software products. The position involves managing cross-project activities, ensuring timely and high-quality deliveries, and coordinating between various development, testing, and global software groups. The successful candidate will need to develop a strong understanding of product dependencies.
Responsibilities
- Be an effective leader in crafting and driving the delivery of high-quality software efficiently
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Architecture, and Marketing globally to coordinate product releases and ensure they meet schedule and quality standards
- Partner with QA teams to ensure alignment of all tests between development, verification, and QA groups
- Take full ownership of projects from kickoff to signoff
- Manage multiple parallel releases with strong attention to detail, ensuring clarity, alignment, and consistent communication across teams while tracking dependencies, milestones, and deliverables
- Maintain clear, up-to-date visibility of the release status, ensuring all stakeholders have an accurate understanding of progress, next steps, priorities, and risks at any given time
- Support Senior Release Managers with release activities
- Own and manage selected cross-products topics (e.g., customer bugs, release checklists, RCAs, Triage, define and improve processes)
- Conduct release meetings and communicate release status
- Resolve issues when they appear and raise red flags when needed
- Work with planning and tracking systems to lead release progress and build release indicators
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Industrial Engineering with technical experience
- 3+ years of proven experience as a Release Manager or SW project leadership
- Great interpersonal skills
- Agility with multi-tasking abilities and ability to work independently and in an organized way
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and critical thinking abilities
- Ability to self-manage, self-start, lead technically, and communicate effectively
- Excellent presentation skills and eloquent English
- Public speaking required
- Experience in leading global projects
- Proficiency with tools such as MS Excel, Atlassian Confluence, enterprise ticket system (e.g., Redmine, Jira, TFS)
Nice to have:
- Proficiency with BI tools (e.g., MS PowerBI)
- Good technical know-how and familiarity with Networking and Cloud technologies
- Experience with Agile software development methodology and practices
