Business Insider Is Hiring A Release Manager

BI's tech team at our annual party at the NYSEBusiness Insider is looking for a release manager to join the team in building the fastest-growing business news site on the web.

This is a release manager role with scrum master and producer duties that give you access to the broader tech life cycle. We're looking for someone with a can-do attitude, extreme organizational skills, and a keen interest in technology. You'll be a critical member of the product team as well as the ambassador to the larger organization, with an emphasis on communication with editorial team.

The duties break down into three key areas:

Releases:

• Coordinate with CTO and QA to schedule specific dates for releases, as well as specific issues that should make it out in each release
• Send release preview notes day of release
• Editorially review anything and everything that goes into releases
• Send release notes first thing the morning after a release night

Scrum & JIRA:

• Schedule/anticipate scrum meetings
• Facilitate the meetings
• Anticipate and unblock blockers
• Oversee agile boards for various projects
• General maintenance of JIRA depending on team's evolving needs
• Follow up with developers if workloads don't appear to move across boards
• Create versions for release dates, tag individual tickets with release dates in order to keep track of them for documentation purposes
• Monitor tickets/agile boards to anticipate what will make it out in weekly releases

Education:

• Send editors training emails regarding new features
• Host occasional face-to-face training sessions for major feature releases

The idea candidate: high-energy and enthusiastic. Terrific facilitator and communicator. Highly observant. Good problem solver.

Requirements include:

• Familiarity with basic web and mobile technologies as well as iterative development
• At least two years work experience
• Agile scrum master training a plus, but we'll train as needed if not
• News junkie status and mobile experience are highly prized but not required.

This position is based in our New York City office. Business Insider offers competitive salary and good benefits.

Sound like the role for you? If so, please email a link to your LinkedIn profile and a short email with relevant experience to techjobs@businessinsider.com with the subject line "Release Manager." Thanks in advance.