Portfolio Release Manager, Developer Experience Platform

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office.

This job posting is for an existing, currently vacant position

Portfolio Release Manager [Developer Experience Platform]

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As a Portfolio Release Manager working within a Product Operating Model (POM) — and supporting Priceline’s Developer Experience Platform — your role centers on orchestrating the successful and predictable release of value to end users. You ensure that the platform teams deliver with quality, timing, and alignment, while continuously improving the delivery process to support agility, scale, and compliance across the Developer Experience Platform.

In this role you will get to:

• •Lead Planning and Coordinate all Product releases
• •Own and maintain the release calendar, working across product, engineering, QA, and operations teams to schedule and coordinate releases.
• •Ensure that releases — especially cross-team or cross-domain ones — are well-planned, communicated, and aligned to business milestones (e.g., launches, campaigns, seasonal readiness).
• •Drive release readiness checkpoints, confirming that testing, documentation, approvals, and risk assessments are complete.

• •Risk & Quality Management
• •Identify and manage risks to release quality, timing, or rollback readiness.
• •Partner with QA and SRE/DevOps to enforce release criteria, stability gates, and post-release validation processes.
• •Maintain controls required for compliance, audit, or change management (especially in regulated environments).

• •Cross-Team Communication & Stakeholder Alignment
• •Serve as the central point of coordination for product and platform releases — connecting engineering, product, marketing, legal, and support.
• •Ensure key stakeholders are informed of release scope, timing, and any critical changes or incidents.
• •Help shape release notes, rollout communications, or change advisories in partnership with product managers and comms leads.

• •Process Improvement & Automation
• •Continuously improve the release process, tooling, and reporting to support faster, safer, and more frequent releases.
• •Partner with DevOps, SRE, and platform teams to advance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and feature flagging strategies
• •Support the organization’s shift toward agile and continuous delivery by evolving traditional release cadences and change control practices.

• •Metrics & Post-Release Analysis
• •Track and report on release health metrics (e.g., failed deployments, change lead time, change failure rate, MTTR).
• •Facilitate release retrospectives to identify and act on improvement opportunities.
• •Help assess the business and customer impact of major releases.

Who you are:

• •You have 7+ years of experience in high-impact Technical Program Management role, ideally within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• •You have a demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from concept to production, encompassing engineering design, dependencies, risk mitigation and launch.
• •You have significant hands-on experience managing end-to-end delivery lifecycle for iOS and Android mobile applications, including expertise in managing specific mobile application challenges such as release coordination, App Store/Google Play submission processes, beta testing programs, feature flagging, deep linking implementation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines optimized for mobile platforms.
• •You lead Program Increment (PI) planning events, including the preparation, execution and follow-up activities necessary to align business, product and engineering teams on shared objectives (OKRs), dependencies and committed features.
• •You build highly productive, collaborative relationships with diverse, distributed development teams, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Information Security, Quality Assurance (QA), Portfolio Management and Executive Leadership.
• •You enable safe, fast, and reliable delivery of value to customers.
• •You act as a bridge between rapid product development and operational stability.
• •You reduce friction and risk in the last mile of delivery, helping product and engineering teams move with confidence.
• •A detail-oriented operator who thrives in fast-paced environments and can manage multiple competing priorities
• •A strong communicator who builds bridges across technical and non-technical teams
• •Proactive in identifying risks and opportunities, and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
• •Experienced in coordinating software releases, especially in complex environments with multiple dependencies
• •Collaborative, organized, and solution-oriented, with a bias for action
• •Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust
• •The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.

The salary range for this position is $95,000-110,000

Who We Are

WE ARE PRICELINE.

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!

Flexible work at Priceline

Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.

Perks & Benefits at Priceline

Our benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, and life inside and outside of work. Eligible Priceliners have access to:

Health & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources

Generous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days

Work/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)

Financial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability cov