Manager, Release Engineering (Mountain View, CA) Behaviors, Execution and Foundation

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Focus:
  • Active solicitation of requirements 
  • Curate team roadmap
  • Foster healthy working relationships in distributed teams
  • Balance business needs, internal requests, and team needs 
• Business Execution Management:
  • Track progress and maintain a clear perspective on deadlines and roadmaps
  • Communication with stakeholders on roadmap highlights, status, and risks
  • Vendor management of tools used for production as the technical owner
  • Strong organization skills
• Domain Expertise and Leadership:
  • Automation first, find creative solutions to complex problems
  • Build and support domain expertise within the team, find opportunities to run PoCs, and help establish a technical roadmap, enabling the team to become the domain technical leader with operational excellence.
• Team Leadership:
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members personally and professionally
  • Grow your team by recruiting and retaining strong technical and inclusive contributors
  • Lead end-to-end execution of initiatives and projects with your team and technical staff.
  • Continuously improve team practices and procedures.
  • Encourage and develop an inclusive culture and diverse team
• Continuous learning in automation, continuous integration, and reliable deployment.

SmartThings Benefits

Why You’ll Love Working at SmartThings

• We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.
• All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave). 
• Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
• Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.