Release Manager

About The Position

FundGuard is the new generation investment accounting utility for asset managers and their service providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered operating system and technology platform are transforming investment operations. FundGuard existentially changes asset servicing to enable reduced fees and the ability to offer new and innovative products, including crypto-asset services, at scale, today and tomorrow.

The company is led by an experienced team with successful exits and has raised more than $57 million, backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street Corp, venture firms Blumberg Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 Capital among others.

We offer an exciting work opportunity where you’ll develop one of the more robust enterprise applications with deep financial engines, while using cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Read more about our latest achievements

FundGuard Named “Tomorrow’s Top Growth Company” by Qumra Capital

Follow us: linkedin.com/fundguard

We are located in Azrieli Center Tel Aviv.

Our stack is:

SaaS multi-tenant solution of microservices architecture managed over Kubernetes

Multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure)

Data pipelines technologies using various big data databases

State-of-the-art CI/CD with cloud monitoring

As a Release Manager, You will be responsible for implementing and managing the release process from development to testing and then finally to the production environments.

You will conduct the release procedure with different teams: Customer success, product/Biz management and dev teams, from the beginning of a project and see it through to the moment of release.

Responsibilities 

• Managing product releases and hotfixes 
• Plan and coordinate the scheduled releases procedure
• Work closely with Product Managers, Developers, and QA to consolidate all features and improvements that are being released and keep an up-to-date roadmap representation of past, current, and future releases.
• Be the focal point for CS, Support, Product, and other stakeholders and communicate upcoming release content.
• Manage the release notes creation process 
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality
• Defining and enhancing the pipelines that support the provisioning, deployment, and data onboarding
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the product backlog, and customer cases.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Maintains the release branches in the source control 

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience as a release manager/program manager
• Must have an experience in SaaS, multi-tenant B2B platforms
• Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail, able to drive and manage multiple tasks in parallel while interfacing with varied stakeholders
• Excellent R&D process understanding and best practices
• Practical experience with Git, ticketing systems (we use AzureDevops), and CI/CD
• Agile and scrum methodology understanding
• Self-motivated person with excellent interpersonal skills
• Advanced English written and verbal communication skills
• Engineering degree from leading universities or/and technological intelligence units graduate
• Leader, team player, fast learner, and has a “get things done” attitude