Job Description

Release Program Manager (Release Portfolio & Executive Visibility)

Location: Greenwood Village, CO (4 days onsite/1 day remote)

Contract Duration: Long term ongoing W2 contract

Pay Range : $65+/hour depending on experience

Reporting: Directly under GVP

Role Overview

The Access Engineering organization is seeking a Release Program Manager to provide portfolio-level coordination, visibility, and executive communication across multiple release teams.

This role is not responsible for hands-on execution of individual releases. Instead, it sits above release execution, bringing together inputs from Release Managers, Engineering, QA, and Product to create a single, executive-ready view of upcoming releases, dependencies, and risk.

This individual will act as a right-hand partner to leadership, helping translate complex, multi-team release activity into clear, visual, decision-ready narratives for senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide portfolio-level visibility into release activity across multiple teams and verticals
• Consolidate release timelines, ownership, dependencies, and risks into clear, executive-facing views
• Coordinate closely with Release Managers and technical teams to synthesize release readiness, not execute releases
• Identify cross-team dependencies (e.g., where one release requires input from another vertical)
• Prepare and own executive-ready PowerPoint decks that communicate:
• What is releasing
• When it is releasing
• Who owns it
• What risks or blockers exist
• Act as a trusted liaison between leadership and delivery teams to ensure alignment and clarity
• Replace tribal knowledge with documented, repeatable release visibility processes
• Partner with PMs and leadership to ensure release activity aligns with broader organizational priorities

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Release Management, Portfolio Management, or similar
• Demonstrated experience bringing together multiple workstreams or releases into a single leadership-facing view
• Advanced PowerPoint skills with a strong track record of building executive-level presentations
• Strong ability to synthesize information from multiple sources (tools, teams, stakeholders)
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills; comfortable networking across busy teams
• Solid understanding of release management concepts and best practices (without needing to be hands-on technically)
• Ability to influence without direct authority and manage ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in telecom, networking, or large-scale infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA and Confluence (used as inputs, not the final output)
• Experience supporting senior leadership (Director, VP, GVP level)

What This Role Is / Is Not

This role IS:

• Program- and portfolio-focused
• Heavy on executive communication and visualization
• Focused on alignment, synthesis, and clarity

This role is NOT:

• A hands-on Release Manager role running individual releases
• A Scrum Master or delivery execution role
• A CI/CD or tooling-focused engineering role

Why This Role Matters

Leadership needs a clear, accurate, and digestible picture of release activity across teams to make informed decisions. This role ensures that visibility exists — and that releases across the organization move forward in a coordinated, predictable way.

Eight Eleven Group (Brooksource) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws

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