Description
Program & Release Manager
Location: Raanana
#LI-Hybrid
DRIVENETS is driving and leading the next generation networks with our Network Cloud solution.
DRIVENETS was founded to solve the “data explosion challenge” - one of the biggest challenges for service providers, content providers, public cloud, and enterprises.
Our cutting-edge technology and Network Cloud solution has created a paradigm shift in the economy of networks. With smart and super high-performance bit processing on merchant silicon and commodity hardware, we enable new revenue opportunities as well as lower costs and sustainable growth for our customers, even as Internet usage explodes.
We are seeking an experienced Program & Release manager to join our Program and Release Management group
The role:
- Program & Release management is the process of managing, planning, monitoring and controlling releases through different stages
- The program & release manager is responsible for managing the complete software delivery life cycle
- The program & release manager is expected to have a deep understanding of development and testing methodologies, preferable as part of an agile environment
Responsibilities:
- Continuously drive planning by thorough understanding of the development implications, manage tradeoffs and prioritization.
- Clearly communicate targets, effectively negotiate and set expectations across parties on goals.
- Proactively identify and manage risks. Mitigate and resolves issues that affect release goals.
- Define KPIs, measure and monitor trends to ensure on-time high quality delivery.
- Ensure agility development which delivers continuous flow of value as determined by a defined cadence. Sync all teams on the train to a common development pace.
- Effectively and efficiently collaborate with all involved parties – developers, test engineers, product managers and operations. Maintain relationships and coordinate efforts between different groups/teams.
- Manage interdependencies between development teams to ensure milestone adherence.
- Define processes and methodologies for R&D
- Act out of continuous improvement mindset
Requirements
- At least 5 years experience of program/project/release management in an agility development environment.
- Expertise and deep understanding of development methodologies and SW development lifecycle, especially thorough understanding of agility methods.
- Deep understanding of branch management and its implication on the development processes.
- Ability to dive into tech details of a new area and efficiently negotiate with developers on related issues.
- Ability to succeed in a multi-tasking and high frequency context switching per priorities.
- Problem solving attitude, proactive, self-learner, motivated, independent and ability to lead cross-group activities in complex matrix organizations.
- Experience in Jira & Confluence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Formal PMP/SAFe/SCM/RTE certification – an advantage
- Jira admin experience – an advantage
Top Skills
What We Do
DriveNets is a rapidly growing software company that has created a radical new way for service providers and hyperscalers to build their networking infrastructure. DriveNets Network Cloud and DriveNets Network Cloud-AI are new innovative networking solutions that apply the cloud architectural approach to high-scale networking. They bring together the scalability of standard Ethernet Clos architecture with the high performance and reliability of service provider networking, delivering optimal networking performance, scale and cost structure for service providers and hyperscalers.
Founded by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky, two successful telco entrepreneurs, DriveNets Network Cloud is the leading open disaggregated networking solution based on cloud-native software running over standard white boxes.
Over three funding rounds, DriveNets raised $587 million. Its solutions are used by tens of service providers globally and are in proof-of-concept and lab trials at dozens of operators and hyperscalers, consistently ranking #1 in trials for breadth of capabilities and solution quality. AT&T, the largest backbone in the US, deployed DriveNets Network Cloud across its core network, and DriveNets is currently transporting more than 52% of AT&T’s core network traffic. DriveNets is engaged with over 100 Tier-1 operators and cloud-providers on large projects in North America, Asia and Europe.
