About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Release Leader responsible for coordinating cross-product production releases and supporting product development teams in adopting agile and product-centric practices. The Release Leader partners with product teams to plan and execute software releases, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. This role involves navigating dependencies, resolving impediments, and mitigating risks across the product line. Building trusted relationships across all levels is essential to enable effective collaboration among release teams, scrum masters, product owners, and developers. The goal is to evolve release planning into a sustainable, collaborative process.

In this role, you will:

Provide thought leadership to maintain customer centricity and facilitates activities that foster continuous improvement.Strategically engage with all levels of professionals, program or product managers and stakeholders to enhance transparency, resolve issues, and foster team empowerment; serves as an advisor to leadership and a peer mentor on technical change management policies.Plan and facilitate cross-product / internal product quarterly planning sessions to promote understanding of prioritized needs, estimate which deliverables must be achieved in the same cycle and potential impacts to live code across the technology eco-system.Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping.Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts.Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)Communicate frequently with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.Assists all delivery / release roles (where applicable) in understanding and adhering to all Enterprise requirements required for software implementation.Assists in ensuring compliance, SDLC and ECM/change management efforts are understood and adopted across the Product.

Required Qualifications:

4+ years of Business Systems Data experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education4+ years of Technical Project Management experience3+ years of requirement traceability, release planning, and release management experience in Agile SDLC environment.

Desired Qualifications:

Tool experience in Jira, Confluence and Service NowContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) experienceExcellent Communication skills with multiple levels of leadershipStakeholder Relationship Management

Job Expectations:

Manage and enforce best practices, processes, and procedures for the SDLC.Oversee cross-product technical dependency management.Understand and maintain documentation of technical architecture for integrated systems, collaborating with technical architects as needed.Ensure effective configuration management.Collaborate with cross-functional teams—product management, software development, and engineering—to support timely, high-quality releases.Facilitate inclusive, collaborative conversations and release mapping to support product and production readiness.Promote transparency across the product line by synchronizing release events and iteratively developing feature roadmaps to identify dependencies and potential conflicts.Partner with product managers and technology teams to mitigate risks by maintaining a comprehensive view of the technology ecosystem, including infrastructure, third-party dependencies, financial impacts of delays, and risks of unscheduled implementations or production errors.

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$87,000.00 - $168,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

Health benefits401(k) PlanPaid time offDisability benefitsLife insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insuranceParental leaveCritical caregiving leaveDiscounts and savingsCommuter benefitsTuition reimbursementScholarships for dependent childrenAdoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:

25 Jul 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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