Job Description

Release Manager

Gerrards Cross or Remote

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?


Who are we?


We are ranked as the UK's #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.


If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you've come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.


We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn't just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

We are seeking a proactive and strategic Release Manager to support the end-to-end product and software delivery process, ensuring smooth, predictable, and high-quality releases. This role is pivotal in aligning cross-functional teams from capacity planning through to release execution, and requires a strong command of agile delivery practices, data analytics, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement.


Reporting to the Vice President Product - Applications, the Release Manager will coordinate planning, execution, enablement, and communication activities across multiple teams and stakeholders to ensure successful and timely product and software releases.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Capacity & Roadmap Planning

Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Delivery teams to

define and

validate quarterly and annual capacity plans. Support prioritization efforts by aligning team capacity with

product roadmaps and business

objectives. Use

historical data and velocity trends

to forecast delivery capabilities and highlight constraints.

2. Scalable Release Planning

Support

Release planning sessions

to synchronize efforts across multiple scrum teams and feature sets and securitise against release objectives. Develop detailed

release calendars

, interdependency maps, and milestone plans across products and platforms. Drive alignment between

technical delivery plans and business readiness

needs, including enablement timelines.

3. Data-Driven Delivery Monitoring

Design and maintain

real-time dashboards

to track progress across features, epics, sprints, and release trains.
Monitor KPIs including burndown charts, defect leakage, test pass rates, and deployment success metrics.

4. Coordination and Stakeholder Communication

Facilitate

cross-team scrums of scrums

and dependency syncs. Communicate timelines, scope changes, risk status, and release health via

transparent and structured reporting mechanisms

.

5. Internal Readiness and

Release Enablement


Partner with Go-To-Market, Sales, and Support teams to ensure

enablement materials, training, and FAQs

are delivered ahead of release. Lead

Release Readiness Reviews, Business Go/No-Go assessments

, and

stakeholder sign-off processes

. Coordinate early access programs, beta testing, and feedback loops to de-risk launches. Ensure comprehensive

post-release reviews and retrospectives

are conducted to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.

6

. Continuous Improvement & Governance


Own and continuously evolve the

release governance framework

, templates, and best practices. Collect feedback from delivery teams and stakeholders to optimize release cadence, tooling, and process efficiency. Managing executive-level reporting (C-suite dashboards, release risk briefings).
Acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders at the highest levels.

Key Skills

Proven work experience as a Release Manager or similar role in project management / PMO leadership Demonstrated ability to plan and execute complex software releases involving cross-functional coordination Deep knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Git, Aha, and associated product and engineering release solutions Experience with project management software Excellent knowledge of Product / Software Development Life Cycle (PDLC/SDLC) Strong problem-solving skills Strong problem-solving and risk management skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in influencing and aligning stakeholders Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you've come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.


Our team is everything, so we'll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We're strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

We are

United

. As part of a team, we're better together.


We are

Agile

. Be the change, we're on a journey.


We are

Trusted

. Do the right thing, we own this.


We are

Driven

. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We've selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service. 4% matched pension. Income protection and life assurance. Access to our award-winning benefits platform. We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7. 100 allowance towards a fitness club. Dell discounts. Private Medical Insurance. Paid study leave + volunteering days. Car Scheme.


Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.