Senior Portfolio Release Manager

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.
 

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As a Senior Portfolio Release Manager (Manages Product Releases) working within a Product Operating Model (POM) — and supporting a business portfolio and platform — your role centers on orchestrating the successful and predictable release of value to end users. You ensure that product and platform teams deliver with quality, timing, and alignment, while continuously improving the release process to support agility, scale, and compliance. Release Managers are tied to support Product Groups or Products (if Product Group layer doesn’t exist).

In this role you will get to:

• Release Planning & Coordination

  • 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 bring in 8 -10 years of  strong Agile and Project/Program Management experience, with a solid understanding of how release management integrates into iterative delivery models.

• You’ve led or supported cross-functional release planning, coordinated dependencies across multiple teams, and ensured smooth delivery through disciplined execution and continuous improvement.

• You’re fluent in Agile ceremonies, metrics, and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar) and can apply them pragmatically to drive outcomes.

• You understand the importance of governance, communication, and stakeholder management in scaling delivery across a portfolio.

• 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.

• 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

• A detail-oriented operator who thrives in fast-paced environments and can manage multiple competing priorities

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.
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Who we are

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.  

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out! 

Flexible work at Priceline

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