Release Manager

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VML (Wunderman Thompson)

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Hybrid

Posted April 20, 2026

Job Description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.

The opportunity:

An experienced Release Manager, who leads teams to follow best practices in development standards and coding reviews. You have an enthusiasm for learning new skills and initiative to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.

You will be primarily responsible the management and protection of releases through, where appropriate, Build/Develop, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod and Production environments across multiple technical stacks including front ends, middleware, core commerce platforms and more.

What you’ll get to do:

Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
Analyse risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
Work cohesively with external partners, suppliers, product owners, and system integrators (SI’s)
Develop common strategies for release governance across multiple systems
Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
Act as guardian to uphold the integrity of the branching strategy and ensure processes are optimised to enable frequent and smooth releases
Know and understand impacts of branches and code merges in the repositories used by the dev teams.
Work with third party managed-hosting providers to increase automated processes end-to-end
Work with the development teams.
Coach and help automate release processes.
Inform senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it
Create, track, and maintain a published release and deployment calendar.
Know the tech stack of the development process