Remote Release Manager Jobs
Remote release manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring steadily in software, fintech, and enterprise technology. Employers hiring remote release managers right now include PayIt, Maximus, and Cotiviti. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.
Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call "PayIt DNA": High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.
Release Planning and Coordination:
- Develop and maintain PayIt Outdoors Release schedule by coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of business goals and project objectives and deliverables.
- Working with the client teams and engineering teams to plan and deploy hotfixes.
- Working with the DBE's and Eng teams to schedule and deploy releases.
- Collaborate with product managers, operations, development teams, and quality assurance to define release scope and objectives.
Release Execution
- Oversee the end-to-end release process, including User Acceptance and Production deployment activities and rollback plans, to ensure smooth and successful releases.
- Schedule and run release reviews
- Make sure required work is included in releases.
- Keep track of the branches and make sure the merges occur after sprints.
Communication and Documentation:
- Communicate release schedules, status updates, and potential risks to stakeholders.
- Maintain detailed documentation of release processes, configurations, and dependencies.
- Create and maintain documentation of issues and resolutions.
Risk Management:
- Identify and mitigate potential risks that may impact the success of software releases.
- Establish and enforce change control and release management processes.
Incident management
- Oversee the end-to-end PayIt Outdoors incident response lifecycle. Key responsibilities include coordinating cross-functional resources during active incidents, validating proper resolution and closure, and tracking critical process metrics to continuously improve response efficiency.
Jira Administration
- Workflow Architecture: Design, build, and maintain custom Jira workflows, issue types, field configurations, and permission schemes tailored to team needs.
- Process Automation: Create and optimize Jira Automation rules and integrations to streamline operational handoffs and reduce manual overhead.
- Project & User Administration: Manage site-level project configurations, access control, user roles, and board configurations across departments.
Why Work For Us:
- Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
- You'll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you'll grow a ton working at PayIt
- People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
- We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
- Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.
What We Care About:
We hire high-aptitude, high-integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.
A Note About AI at PayIt
We love AI. We use it every day and encourage our team to find creative, effective ways to put it to work. If you join PayIt, you'll bring the same enthusiasm for exploring how AI can amplify impact, productivity, and innovation. During the interview process, though, we want to hear from you, not a model. Our goal is to understand how you actually think, solve problems, and communicate, so we ask that your live conversations and assessment responses be your own work.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.
PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.
To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers' alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Stay Current on PayIt Happenings: Follow Us On LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Within the parameters of this position, ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and exercise due care of, company, client, and citizen data that is stored, processed, and transmitted by and for PayIt, as outlined in PayIt's Business Code of Conduct and Information Security Policies.
PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.
Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call "PayIt DNA": High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.
Release Planning and Coordination:
- Develop and maintain PayIt Outdoors Release schedule by coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of business goals and project objectives and deliverables.
- Working with the client teams and engineering teams to plan and deploy hotfixes.
- Working with the DBE's and Eng teams to schedule and deploy releases.
- Collaborate with product managers, operations, development teams, and quality assurance to define release scope and objectives.
Release Execution
- Oversee the end-to-end release process, including User Acceptance and Production deployment activities and rollback plans, to ensure smooth and successful releases.
- Schedule and run release reviews
- Make sure required work is included in releases.
- Keep track of the branches and make sure the merges occur after sprints.
Communication and Documentation:
- Communicate release schedules, status updates, and potential risks to stakeholders.
- Maintain detailed documentation of release processes, configurations, and dependencies.
- Create and maintain documentation of issues and resolutions.
Risk Management:
- Identify and mitigate potential risks that may impact the success of software releases.
- Establish and enforce change control and release management processes.
Incident management
- Oversee the end-to-end PayIt Outdoors incident response lifecycle. Key responsibilities include coordinating cross-functional resources during active incidents, validating proper resolution and closure, and tracking critical process metrics to continuously improve response efficiency.
Jira Administration
- Workflow Architecture: Design, build, and maintain custom Jira workflows, issue types, field configurations, and permission schemes tailored to team needs.
- Process Automation: Create and optimize Jira Automation rules and integrations to streamline operational handoffs and reduce manual overhead.
- Project & User Administration: Manage site-level project configurations, access control, user roles, and board configurations across departments.
Why Work For Us:
- Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
- You'll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you'll grow a ton working at PayIt
- People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
- We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
- Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.
What We Care About:
We hire high-aptitude, high-integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.
A Note About AI at PayIt
We love AI. We use it every day and encourage our team to find creative, effective ways to put it to work. If you join PayIt, you'll bring the same enthusiasm for exploring how AI can amplify impact, productivity, and innovation. During the interview process, though, we want to hear from you, not a model. Our goal is to understand how you actually think, solve problems, and communicate, so we ask that your live conversations and assessment responses be your own work.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.
PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.
To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers' alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Stay Current on PayIt Happenings: Follow Us On LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Within the parameters of this position, ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and exercise due care of, company, client, and citizen data that is stored, processed, and transmitted by and for PayIt, as outlined in PayIt's Business Code of Conduct and Information Security Policies.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote release manager jobs.
- 3–7 years of experience managing software release cycles in a production environment
- Hands-on proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
- Experience with Agile and SAFe frameworks and release train coordination
- Familiarity with ITIL change management processes and release governance documentation
- Strong cross-functional communication skills for coordinating engineering, QA, and operations teams
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Release Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote release manager openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search by role and apply directly to the ones that match your experience before postings fill, since remote roles often attract high application volume quickly.
Prove async communication in your application
Remote release managers coordinate deploys across time zones entirely through written channels. Include writing samples in your application, such as release runbooks, incident postmortems, or go/no-go decision logs, that show you can communicate release status clearly without synchronous meetings.
Highlight your CI/CD and toolchain fluency
Remote hiring managers move fast when they see direct experience with the tools their team already uses. Call out specific platforms you have configured, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD, and describe the release cadence and team size you supported with each.
Build a visible release management portfolio
Create a public or shareable repository containing real release checklists, rollback procedures, or pipeline documentation you have authored. Remote employers use these artifacts to assess your process thinking before a first interview, so having something concrete to link shortens the evaluation cycle.
Remote Release Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote release manager job?
Target companies that run distributed engineering teams, since those organizations are built around async coordination and are most likely to hire release managers remotely. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, release tracking, and cross-team dependency management. Candidates who can demonstrate they have run releases independently, documented processes thoroughly, and coordinated across time zones stand out most.
Which companies hire remote release managers?
Companies hiring remote release managers right now include PayIt, Maximus, and Cotiviti, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first software firms and distributed platform teams across sectors like fintech, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS are among the most consistent sources of remote openings for this role.
Can you get a remote release manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage release cycles with minimal oversight from day one. Your strongest path is through smaller remote-first startups or open-source projects where you can document real release coordination work. Showing a portfolio of CI/CD configurations, runbooks, or release notes you have authored demonstrates the self-sufficiency remote employers need to see.
Do you need a degree for remote release manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers for this role weigh demonstrated experience with release pipelines, version control, and cross-functional coordination more heavily than a specific degree. Certifications in DevOps, ITIL, or agile delivery, combined with a concrete history of managing production releases, can carry as much weight as a four-year degree in a technical field.
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