Senior Portfolio Release Manager - Flights Acquisition & Retention

About the role

Priceline's Technology team is looking for a Senior Portfolio Release Manager for its Flights Acquisition & Retention group, based in Toronto. The role coordinates releases across product, engineering, commercial and operations teams so that flight shopping experience improvements ship predictably, safely and at scale. It is eligible for a hybrid model of two days in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Own and maintain the release calendar for the Flights Acquisition & Retention group, aligning releases to strategic initiatives, roadmap milestones and seasonal travel demand peaks
• Manage cross-team dependencies and sequencing, and set processes, systems and controls to reduce delivery risk
• Identify and manage risks to release quality, timing, funnel stability and rollback readiness, and partner with Engineering, Data and InfraOps on release criteria, validation gates and post-release monitoring
• Maintain controls for compliance, audit and change management, including fare display and pricing-related regulations
• Act as the central coordinator for releases, communicating scope, timelines, dependencies, risks and incidents to Flights leadership and partner teams
• Improve release processes, tooling and reporting, and work with DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering on CI/CD pipelines, release automation, feature flags and model deployment
• Track release health metrics (deployment frequency, failed deployments, change lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and funnel, conversion and data quality metrics, and run release retrospectives

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in Agile delivery, Technical Program Management, Release Management or Portfolio Management, supporting large-scale e-commerce shopping organizations
• Deep understanding of release management within Product Operating Models and iterative delivery frameworks
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional release planning across search, shopping, pricing, personalization/ML or experimentation systems, ideally in travel, e-commerce or a similar high-volume environment
• Familiarity with growing new customers through channels such as Meta
• Fluent in Agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery practices
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with proven ability to coordinate dependencies across teams

Nice to have

• Experience driving new customer growth via Agentic Commerce channels
• Proficiency with AI and automation tools, and familiarity with Agentic AI and AI-assisted software delivery

What we offer

• Salary range of $115,000-$135,000, with possible annual bonus and/or equity grant
• Hybrid work with two days in the office, chosen by you and your manager
• Health, dental, vision and mental health coverage, generous time off, work-from-anywhere option up to 4 weeks per year, parental leave and retirement plans
• Employee travel discounts, tuition and legal support, ERGs and social events