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Deployment Project Manager
About this role
PURPOSE Own the end-to-end planning, coordination, and execution of deployments across business, technology, and operational teams. The Deployment Manager ensures each release is ready to deploy, dependencies and risks are understood, and all required activities are coordinated through go-live and stabilization. Key Responsibilities Own the integrated deployment plan across business and technology workstreams. Drive deployment readiness across environments, data, integrations, testing, training, communications, cutover, and support.
Coordinate dependencies across application teams, infrastructure, vendors, business teams, and other programs. Establish and manage deployment milestones, entry/exit criteria, and readiness checkpoints. Facilitate deployment readiness reviews and provide a clear view of risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions. Own the cutover plan, including sequencing, ownership, timing, dependencies, contingency planning, and command-center readiness.
Ensure open defects, technical issues, and operational risks are understood and appropriately incorporated into deployment decisions. Coordinate Go/No-Go preparation and ensure decision-makers have a concise, fact-based readiness view. Drive resolution and escalation of deployment blockers. Coordinate go-live execution and transition into hypercare/stabilization. Capture lessons learned and continuously improve the deployment approach across releases.
What This Role Owns vs. Partners On Deployment Manager owns Partners with Integrated deployment plan Program / Project Managers Deployment milestones Product & Business teams Cross-workstream deployment dependencies Technical Integration PM Readiness governance QA / Testing Cutover planning & coordination Release / Engineering teams Go/No-Go readiness view Change, Training & Communications Deployment risks & escalations Business Operations Go-live coordination Service / Support teams Hypercare coordination Workstream leads Success Measures Deployment plans are integrated, current, and understood across workstreams.
Critical dependencies and risks are identified early and actively managed. Readiness is transparent ahead of Go/No-Go decisions. Cutover activities have clear owners, timing, and dependencies. Deployments move into production with appropriate business and technical readiness. Issues during go-live and stabilization are rapidly coordinated and resolved. Experience / Capabilities Strong experience managing complex enterprise deployments or releases.