Delivery Release Manager/Senior

Transforming the Future of Enterprise Planning At o9, our mission is to be the Most Value-Creating Platform for enterprises by transforming decision-making through our AI-first approach. By integrating siloed planning capabilities and capturing millions—even billions—in value leakage, we help businesses plan smarter and faster. This not only enhances operational efficiency but also reduces waste, leading to better outcomes for both businesses and the planet. Global leaders like Google, PepsiCo, Walmart, T-Mobile, AB InBev, and Starbucks trust o9 to optimize their supply chains. About the role: As a release manager, the role requires a good level of technical understanding and goes beyond sprint planning and tracking delivery. The Release Manager owns end-to-end governance of code and configuration promotion across the program from Build through Cutover to Technical Go-Live (TGL) that is, all pre-production config movements: Dev, Dev Master, QA/Test, and Prod Master, up to and including the Production release itself. The role is the single point of control for what moves between pre-production environments, when it moves, and under what approval — ensuring every promotion is planned, reviewed, sequenced, evidenced, and auditable. This includes formal sign-off authority at each release gate (Gate 0: User Story Go/No- Go → Dev → Dev Master → QA/Test → Prod Master → Prod), ownership of release documentation and versioning and enforcement of segregation of duties so that no one promotes their own change to production.   The Release Manager's accountability ends at Technical Go-Live — once a release is successfully promoted and stable in production, ownership passes out of this role. The Release Manager owns the pre-production release pipeline — and the evidence trail behind it — up to TGL. The role is a compliance trade-off by design: it improves release quality, which requires that time for gate reviews and evidence checks be planned into the delivery calendar rather than treated as absorbable slack. Role: Delivery Release Manager/Senior Location: Bangalore, Hybrid What you’ll do for us… 1. Release Management Own and publish the release calendar and governance framework — from Gate 0 (User Story Go/No-Go) through Gate 5 (Production release) — covering Dev, Dev Master, QA/Test, Prod Master, and Production environments, up to Technical Go-Live. Act as the sole authority for Go/No-Go decisions on every code/config promotion, enforcing strict segregation of duties so that no one promotes their own change to production, while upholding a fixed-timeline, variable-scope release model. Partner closely with Solution Architects to define the code/config promotion strategy for major releases, minor releases, and defect fixes, then govern and enforce adherence to that agreed strategy through the gate process. Manage build and bug-fix migrations end-to-end — reviewing readiness, auditing trackers, approving promotion package…