01Overview
About Gruve
Gruve is an innovative software services startup dedicated to transforming enterprises to AI powerhouses. We specialize in cybersecurity, customer experience, cloud infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.
Position Summary
We are hiring a Release Manager based in either the APAC or EMEA region to coordinate the end-to-end release lifecycle for a portfolio of enterprise and product-facing applications. You will partner across engineering, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to ensure that every release is predictable, auditable, and customer-protected.
This is a hands-on role focused on running the release cadence reliably, improving CI/CD and change processes incrementally, and providing regional coverage for release activity across APAC and EMEA time zones.
Candidates from
IIM
institutes are highly preferred for this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain the release calendar for in-scope products, coordinating timing, dependencies, and stakeholder communication across APAC and EMEA teams.
- Run release readiness reviews and facilitate go/no-go decisions, ensuring acceptance criteria, test evidence, security sign-off, and operational runbooks are complete before deployment.
- Execute deployments to staging and production environments, including coordination of pre- and post-release validation, smoke tests, and rollback if needed.
- Operate and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), reducing manual steps and lead time for changes.
- Drive change management in line with ITIL practices and applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g., GxP, 21 CFR Part 11), maintaining a complete and audit-ready release record.
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