About Us

Zact is a Fintech innovator dedicated to a singular idea : Organizations need simpler expense and payment management systems that align the spending employee with finance and accounting while providing inherent guardrails and continuous reconciliation with financial systems.
Zact enables all parts of the company to Pay by the Rules.

About the Role

Zact provides SaaS for commercial card programs and payments. We're hiring a Release Manager to own how changes reach production across our global regions. You'll be the single point of ownership for release coordination, change management, and the evidence trail behind it.

****This is a hands-on role: you'll build and mature the process as well as run it.

Location

Zact is a global company with multiple locations across US, Europe and India.
We provide 100% Remote Working Option.
Candidates applying for this role should be located in India;

What you'll do

Coordinate releases from multiple project streams into production across global regions, owning the master release calendar and go/no-go reviews

Establish and run the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring every production change has an approved ticket, test evidence, and proper sign-off

Manage the release path through pre-prod and UAT, resolving environment conflicts and monitoring drift from production

Own the change management control and its audit evidence for internal audit, external auditors, and bank client reviews

Lead post-release verification, publish release notes, and report on deployment frequency, change failure rate, and rollback rate

Work with engineering and DevOps to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

What you'll bring

• 5 to 7 years in release management, change management, DevOps, or a related role, including 3+ years in an engineering-adjacent function

• Experience establishing or maturing a release and CAB process, not only following one

• Working knowledge of Jira and GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD tooling

• Experience in a regulated or audited environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or similar)

• Strong communicator who can hold the line on process while staying a pragmatic partner to engineering

• Availability during US hours, with occasional deployments in India hours

Nice to have

Multi-region or global deployment experience

Fintech, payments, or banking technology background

ITIL or equivalent framework familiarity

Working Hours

Standard shift, US business hours (Eastern or Central preferred for bank client coverage)
~2-hour overlap with India team at start of US Day

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