Kforce has a client in Beaverton, OR that is seeking a Senior Release Manager. Summary: This role will be an integral part of the team that enables the company to bring its world-class products and experiences to market. The Senior Release Manager will work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops. Responsibilities: * Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies * Manage all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment * Develop risk management and contingency planning for releases of any size * Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness * Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal * Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production * Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework * Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements * Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions * Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders * Manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders * Partner with Global Technology teams to cultivate collaboration, alignment and integrated planning and execution across all functions * Close partnership with the Portfolio, Product, Technology and Strategy functions * Work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on dependencies for cross-functional deployments