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Release Manager

California - PleasantonFull-Timemid

DevOps & InfrastructureRelease ManagerProject & Program Management

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Overview

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster.

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DevOps & InfrastructureRelease ManagerProject & Program Management

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Are you passionate about working as part of a software engineering team with the talent, energy, and financial backing to deliver killer, industry-changing cloud-based applications? Do you live for the challenges of a fast-paced, rapidly growing startup that cranks out major releases every four months?

If so, we may have the job for you. We are looking for an experienced and energetic Release Manager. You will be directly responsible for driving release engineering activities for our Vault product(s), working closely with our cross-functional product teams located in Pleasanton, CA , India, and Toronto, Canada, and UK offices. Veeva Vault is the fastest growing product in the Veeva Suite of products used in the Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences industry and we strive to deliver customer success with each new release.

We need this role to work during PST business hours.

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product development, quality assurance, and customer support, to establish clear communication channels and facilitate the smooth transition of products from development to customer delivery. You will serve as a bridge, ensuring alignment between these teams, and contributing to the timely release of high-quality products

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and execute release schedules, managing potential bottlenecks to ensure seamless, high-quality deployments

Work with Infrastructure and Technical operations teams to seamlessly deliver infrastructure changes to production

Identify potential roadblocks in the release cycle and develop mitigation strategies to prevent downtime or regressions

Maintain a rigorous change audit trail, ensuring that every deployment includes comprehensive release instruction, rollback plans, and impact assessments

Design and implement automated release workflows

Bring visibility and strengthen communication across the teams

Collect feedback, drive process improvements, and help us get better at delivering products over time

Help organize the Vault Platform release engineering team around key initiatives

5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, or equivalent

Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and version control systems (Git/GitHub/Bitbucket)

Experience working cross functionally with geographically dispersed teams

Experience supporting multiple products in a fast paced environment with sometimes competing priorities

Exceptional ability to translate complex technical jargon into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders

Be very comfortable engaging in technical discussions with engineering/technical operations and being comfortable hands-on when needed

Familiarity with Jenkins, Kibana, and source control tool (like GIT)

Saas or product based company

Experience working in Health Sciences and Life Care industry

Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, shell, or other scripting language

Experience in a product based environment

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Base pay: $100,000 - $175,000

The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.