Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we're driven by the idea of a smarter, cleaner, more connected future-and the possibilities that will bring to the world and to the 7.3 million customers we serve.

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes. More information is available at or . Connect with NRG and Vivint on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.

The Role:

As a part of this, Vivint Smart Home's Innovation team is looking for a Release Manager to help us release quality products to our valued customers. You will play an important role in maintaining the quality of Vivint's industry-leading smart home products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Schedule and communicate all planned releases to various stakeholders in the organization.
• Ensure that all work in a release is accounted for and tracked in the proper tools
• Ensure that builds are fully deployed to proper targets.
• Monitor release metrics and ensure that the proper release procedure is followed.
• Schedule release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release.
• Document and track releases and dependencies in a way that allows organic collaboration.
• Work with the customer experience team to quickly identify concerns during releases.
• Work with the release group to align release practices between teams to reduce complexity.
• Regularly meet with various stakeholders in Product, Program, Engineering, and Quality groups

Required Skills, Experience & Education:

• 4 years minimum in a release management, development operations, or software quality role.
• Experience with Atlassian project management tools or similar.
• Familiarity working with source control and various source branching strategies.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for improving quality and efficiency through effective processes.
• Experienced with agile development methodologies.
• Ability to make decisions and perform risk analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Well organized, creative, and detail-oriented, a self-starter who can identify problems, take initiative to propose solutions, and successfully execute plans.

Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:

• Experience with continuous deployment
• Experience with hardware processes
• Experience with embedded firmware releases
• Familiar with software testing principles
• Experience with customer support principles
• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• Applicable certifications in software development processes
• Project management experience

Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Employee Resource Groups

WORKING CONDITIONS:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

SAFETY:

We enforce a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employees must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.

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