What You’ll Do:

• Grow and lead a team of engineers to create and maintain processes that best serve software quality across Tinder engineering/product teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and design to deliver product features on time and quality.
• Lead the app store meta-data and oversee the app submission process (including localization, branch cut, pre-submission testing, app regression testing, etc.).
• Maintain and improve the release process for handling urgent hotfixes and release approval requests.
• Address any mobile app release rejections while coordinating with key partners in a timely manner.
• Drive the critical conversations between Apple, Google, Tinder business development, and Match Group program management to smoothen the release process.
• Co-own the top-of-funnel metrics with the marketing and business development teams and identify opportunities for in-app events, custom product pages, and optimization.
• Establish engineering org-wide release and test quality transparency via a comprehensive reporting solution.
• Work closely with the platform team to improve the quality of mobile regression testing.
• Drive strategic plans and tactical execution that align with business goals.
• Establish standard processes in release management.
• Lead and mentor team members to reach their full potential.

What You’ll Need:

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
• 5+ years of release management or engineering experience.
• Strong ownership and accountability to be responsible for the release process and quality.
• Maintain and improve team project management rituals either Scrum or Kanban.
• Hands on experience in delivering and maintaining quality of large-scale, end-to-end (consumer-facing) apps/systems.
• Passion for taking initiatives and driving high leverage solutions in a rapidly-changing environment.
• Wisdom on technical trade offs, strong sense of ownership and execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to advocate and present to non-technical audiences, including leadership, in an easily digestible manner.
• Desire and ability to grow, inspire and empower the team to go above and beyond.
• Experience working autonomously with multiple teams across backend, iOS, Android, Web platforms, data, product, analytics, design, business development and external vendors.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in mobile app release management.
• Experience in AWS stack – especially with mobile emphasis.
• Experience in various testing SaaS solutions such as Testrails and Applitools.
• Have experience with setting up and managing one of the listed CI systems such as Jenkins, BuildKite, CIrcleCi, Bitrise.
• Experience in accessibility and localization testing.
• Have enterprise experience to work with native test automation solutions such as XCUITest and Espresso.