Release Manager, Product Development

🕒 May 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Nextech Systems

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201 - 500 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Healthcare Insurance • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Nextech Systems is a company that provides customizable, cloud-based software solutions for medical practices, with a focus on specialties such as Dermatology, Med Spa, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, and Plastic Surgery. Their solutions include features like Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Practice Management systems, designed to streamline operations, increase efficiency, and enhance patient care. Nextech leverages advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence to improve practice revenue cycle management and patient retention. The company's software is trusted by over 16,000 medical practices, helping them attract new patients, optimize staff efficiency, and improve the quality of care. Nextech aims to simplify the healthcare process for specialty providers, offering a user-friendly interface that reduces administrative burdens and allows healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care.

📋 Description

• The Release Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of software releases across the Product Development organization. • This role serves as the central point of accountability for release execution, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high quality, reliable software on predictable timelines. • Own and maintain the portfolio-wide release calendar. • Define scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines. • Coordinate planning across product, development, testing, and deployment phases to keep commitments realistic and transparent. • Serve as the primary point of contact for release execution across Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps. • Run release readiness reviews, partners on go/no-go decisions, and own stakeholder communications. • Manage production deployments schedules, including coordination of release windows and sequencing. • Ensure rollback and contingency plans are defined and tested. • Identify, track, and mitigate risks that could impact release timelines or quality. • Drive continuous improvement of release processes to reduce risk over time. • Partner with DevOps to improve release automation, pipeline reliability, repeatability, and deployment speed. • Monitor post-release performance and stability.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or a related field. • Proven experience working in Product Development environments. • Experience supporting SaaS‑based software products. • Hands‑on experience using Jira for planning, tracking, and release coordination. • Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate across technical and non‑technical teams. • Experience working in health technology or regulated software environments. (Preferred) • Prior ownership of release management for multi‑team or multi‑product portfolios. (Preferred) • Experience with feature flag and release management tools (e.g., LaunchDarkly). (Preferred) • Demonstrated ability to lead teams through high‑pressure deployment schedules. (Preferred) • Strong problem‑solving skills with a proactive, solutions‑oriented mindset. (Preferred) • Experience using and enabling agentic AI capabilities within the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), including AI‑assisted planning, testing, release validation, monitoring, or operational workflows (Preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous annual bonus opportunity • 401(k) with Employer Match • Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours • 11 paid holidays • Your Day Your Way - Celebrate a day of cultural or social significance to you • Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans • Health Savings Account with employer match • Flexible Spending Account • 100% Company-Paid Parental leave (After 6 months with the company) • 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance • Nextech Luminary Peer Recognition Program • Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums • Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available • Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment