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Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
Amazon Ads is looking for a Senior Product Release Manager, Global Release Management to lead release management globally for advertising products, tools and services that impact all Amazon advertisers and customers. As our ad products evolve, the Release Management team's core function is to ensure all internal services teams are systematically equipped to support advertisers be successful with our products. Beyond release planning and launch risk mitigation to protect the advertiser and customer experience, Release Management focuses on delivering operational simplification of products through upstream prioritization of features that enable effective, self-service execution for users. Release Managers build scalable processes and mechanisms with up and downstream stakeholders in order to launch, and maintain successful ad products.
The candidate will have high standards for themselves and everyone they work with, and will be constantly looking around corners to prevent short-sighted decisions. This role requires a strong ability to find creative solutions to challenging problems, excellent communication skills, ability to easily navigate ambiguity and define a path forward. You must know how to influence and motivate to get the right things done.
Key job responsibilities
While Product Managers drive product vision and technical requirements; Release Managers provide data-driven cross-product business understanding of releases impact and success. They drive shared goals and gain investments prioritization alignment. Lastly, Release Managers are excellent at driving results, able to coordinate large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. They are involved in reviewing product workflow design and balance near term business need with longer term implications for Amazon. They rationalize business priorities and technical requirements with cross-functional teams, effectively managing cross-functional communication to ensure all business and technical stakeholder’s needs are aligned.
This is a multi-faceted role requiring a breadth of skills and expertise:
- Engage with global stakeholders to understand priorities, and drive cross-team initiatives
- Identify scaled opportunities to help partners implement readiness solutions that expedite market launches and improve product performance
- Track program(s) health and success by evaluating performance and deriving insights via structured analyses in order to influence strategic decisions
A day in the life
Sr. Product Release Managers lead product releases that are large in scope and impact to customers and to the advertising business. They are expected to influence product development strategy to launch the right advertising solutions for advertisers. They enable optimal business and investments decisions for upstream and downstream executing teams through providing data and insights that help identify opportunities for product automation and improved CX. Beyond RM responsibilities, they autonomously gain partner buy-in and implement mechanisms that raise the release readiness bar for all advertising Products and tools globally. They independently develop roadmaps, project plans, risks and dependency logs, releases planning calendars, status updates, and post-mortems. They build simplified processes that automate repeatable activities, promote global standardization, improve testing rigor, remove internal process bottlenecks, and drive productivity gains. They leverage their expertise of operational processes and their deep understanding of product architecture to influence prioritization of product requirements.
About the team
Senior Product Release Managers leverage user workflow and services expertise to enable ad products innovation into Advertiser experiences that scale. Release Management works at the intersection of ad product and services to simplify and improve products and tools, accelerating progress toward issue-free self-service solutions. RM owns critical business functions within CCS; 1) providing design and operational product requirement guidance for product prioritization, 2) mitigating launch impacts across services teams, 3) enabling a common business understanding of product growth and business opportunity vs. execution and CX risks, 4) managing user acceptance testing (UAT), and lastly, 5) driving ongoing open product issue resolution. The RM team acts as the guardrail for the end-to-end user and advertiser experience successfully creating and managing ad campaigns. As the strategic bi-directional voice between Product and Service organizations, RMs have a broad scope of product knowledge, from a deep understanding of their ad product portfolio to end-to-end systems, back-end data flows, and user experience. RMs influence at all levels without authority by acting as the voice of the product customer (internal and advertiser) and shopper customer.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong program management and analytical skills, be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and have the ability to effectively influence and communicate with global stakeholders
- Proven ability to think and move quickly and manage difficult tradeoffs to meet deadlines
- Experience in strategy, change management, release management and rolling-out large scale initiatives
- Experience executing both strategic and operational initiatives
- Experience planning, scheduling, implementing projects in a demanding, change-oriented, fast-paced environment requiring a high degree of deadline-driven productivity
- Proven ability to work with team members to design scalable processes, implement strategic projects that solve business problems, with focus on continuous improvement
- Ability to lead and work effectively with cross functional groups
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels, including senior leadership
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with digital advertising and ad serving
- Working knowledge of Amazon DSP
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 152,100.00 - 205,800.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
Amazon Ads is looking for a Senior Product Release Manager, Global Release Management to lead release management globally for advertising products, tools and services that impact all Amazon advertisers and customers. As our ad products evolve, the Release Management team's core function is to ensure all internal services teams are systematically equipped to support advertisers be successful with our products. Beyond release planning and launch risk mitigation to protect the advertiser and customer experience, Release Management focuses on delivering operational simplification of products through upstream prioritization of features that enable effective, self-service execution for users. Release Managers build scalable processes and mechanisms with up and downstream stakeholders in order to launch, and maintain successful ad products.
The candidate will have high standards for themselves and everyone they work with, and will be constantly looking around corners to prevent short-sighted decisions. This role requires a strong ability to find creative solutions to challenging problems, excellent communication skills, ability to easily navigate ambiguity and define a path forward. You must know how to influence and motivate to get the right things done.
Key job responsibilities
While Product Managers drive product vision and technical requirements; Release Managers provide data-driven cross-product business understanding of releases impact and success. They drive shared goals and gain investments prioritization alignment. Lastly, Release Managers are excellent at driving results, able to coordinate large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. They are involved in reviewing product workflow design and balance near term business need with longer term implications for Amazon. They rationalize business priorities and technical requirements with cross-functional teams, effectively managing cross-functional communication to ensure all business and technical stakeholder’s needs are aligned.
This is a multi-faceted role requiring a breadth of skills and expertise:
- Engage with global stakeholders to understand priorities, and drive cross-team initiatives
- Identify scaled opportunities to help partners implement readiness solutions that expedite market launches and improve product performance
- Track program(s) health and success by evaluating performance and deriving insights via structured analyses in order to influence strategic decisions
A day in the life
Sr. Product Release Managers lead product releases that are large in scope and impact to customers and to the advertising business. They are expected to influence product development strategy to launch the right advertising solutions for advertisers. They enable optimal business and investments decisions for upstream and downstream executing teams through providing data and insights that help identify opportunities for product automation and improved CX. Beyond RM responsibilities, they autonomously gain partner buy-in and implement mechanisms that raise the release readiness bar for all advertising Products and tools globally. They independently develop roadmaps, project plans, risks and dependency logs, releases planning calendars, status updates, and post-mortems. They build simplified processes that automate repeatable activities, promote global standardization, improve testing rigor, remove internal process bottlenecks, and drive productivity gains. They leverage their expertise of operational processes and their deep understanding of product architecture to influence prioritization of product requirements.
About the team
Senior Product Release Managers leverage user workflow and services expertise to enable ad products innovation into Advertiser experiences that scale. Release Management works at the intersection of ad product and services to simplify and improve products and tools, accelerating progress toward issue-free self-service solutions. RM owns critical business functions within CCS; 1) providing design and operational product requirement guidance for product prioritization, 2) mitigating launch impacts across services teams, 3) enabling a common business understanding of product growth and business opportunity vs. execution and CX risks, 4) managing user acceptance testing (UAT), and lastly, 5) driving ongoing open product issue resolution. The RM team acts as the guardrail for the end-to-end user and advertiser experience successfully creating and managing ad campaigns. As the strategic bi-directional voice between Product and Service organizations, RMs have a broad scope of product knowledge, from a deep understanding of their ad product portfolio to end-to-end systems, back-end data flows, and user experience. RMs influence at all levels without authority by acting as the voice of the product customer (internal and advertiser) and shopper customer.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong program management and analytical skills, be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and have the ability to effectively influence and communicate with global stakeholders
- Proven ability to think and move quickly and manage difficult tradeoffs to meet deadlines
- Experience in strategy, change management, release management and rolling-out large scale initiatives
- Experience executing both strategic and operational initiatives
- Experience planning, scheduling, implementing projects in a demanding, change-oriented, fast-paced environment requiring a high degree of deadline-driven productivity
- Proven ability to work with team members to design scalable processes, implement strategic projects that solve business problems, with focus on continuous improvement
- Ability to lead and work effectively with cross functional groups
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels, including senior leadership
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with digital advertising and ad serving
- Working knowledge of Amazon DSP
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 152,100.00 - 205,800.00 USD annually
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Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires Release Manager roles to qualify as specialty occupations, meaning your degree must directly relate to the position. A computer science, engineering, or information systems degree maps cleanly. A general business degree needs supplemental documentation tying your coursework to software release processes.
Target companies with active SDLC infrastructure teams
Release Manager roles exist where software delivery cycles are formalized. Focus on employers running CI/CD pipelines across distributed teams, not early-stage startups still defining their deployment process. These organizations already understand the H-1B1 visa filing mechanics and won't need basic education on sponsorship logistics.
Search verified H-1B1 sponsors on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters job listings by verified H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship history, so you're applying to employers who've filed before, not guessing. Use it to narrow Release Manager openings to companies whose DOL Labor Condition Application filings confirm they sponsor Singaporean nationals.
Verify the prevailing wage tier for your target city
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for Release Manager roles in your work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the Level II or III threshold before negotiating your offer, since wage shortfalls can delay LCA certification.
Get your offer letter before the consulate appointment
Unlike USCIS-processed visas, the H-1B1 visa is adjudicated at the consulate with no pre-approved I-129 petition in hand. Your employer's certified LCA and a detailed offer letter are the core documents the consular officer reviews. Confirm both are finalized and consistent before you schedule your interview.
Check the O*NET profile for your specific release management scope
O*NET classifies Release Manager under Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers or related occupation codes depending on your actual duties. Confirm which code your employer uses on the LCA, because a mismatch between your job description and the occupation code can trigger a request for additional evidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Release Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Release Manager roles that emphasize CI/CD pipeline management, deployment coordination, and cross-team delivery governance typically satisfy the specialty occupation definition. Roles framed as general project management with incidental release duties may face more scrutiny from USCIS during review.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa compare to the H-1B for Release Manager candidates?
The H-1B1 visa skips the lottery entirely and is adjudicated at the U.S. consulate rather than through USCIS, which makes timelines more predictable. The annual cap is 5,400 for Singaporeans and rarely fills. The tradeoff is that H-1B1 does not carry dual intent, so you'll need to demonstrate nonimmigrant intent at each renewal. For Release Managers with a concrete U.S. job offer, the H-1B1 is almost always the faster path.
How do I find employers who have sponsored H-1B1 Singapore visas for Release Managers before?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified H-1B1 visa sponsorship history filtered by role and visa type, so you can identify companies that have filed DOL Labor Condition Applications for Release Manager positions specifically. This is faster than manually sorting through DOL disclosure data and eliminates the guesswork of cold-applying to employers unfamiliar with the H-1B1 process.
What happens to my H-1B1 status if my Release Manager role changes significantly after I arrive?
Material changes to your job duties, title, or work location require your employer to file an amended LCA with DOL and notify USCIS. If your role shifts from hands-on release coordination to a broader program management function, the occupational classification on your LCA may need to be updated. Work with your employer's immigration contact before accepting a role change, not after.
Can a Singaporean Release Manager on H-1B1 switch employers without losing status?
Yes, but the H-1B1 visa does not carry portability protections the way the H-1B does under AC21. Your new employer must file a fresh LCA and have it certified by DOL before you begin work. There's no grace period that lets you start the new job while paperwork is pending, so coordinate your start date carefully with the new employer's HR and immigration team.