Junior Release Manager

Junior Release Manager
Location: HSK, London
Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

About the Role

Daily Mail, the world’s leading online news website, is recruiting for a Junior Release Manager to join our technical and product team based in the London office.

The Junior Release Manager supports the planning, coordination, and communication of software releases across multiple applications, platforms and teams. This role works closely with Project Managers, Developers, QA, Product owners, and Editorial stakeholders to ensure releases are delivered smoothly, safely, and with clear visibility.

This is an entry-level / early-career role designed for someone looking to build a career in Release Management or Software Delivery.

Relevant experience is always useful, but we don't need you to know everything on day one. We're looking for someone organised, curious, and eager to grow into release management.

This is a unique opportunity to join a team within a business that is growing at an exponential rate, both commercially and technologically, into global markets.

Main Responsibilities

Release Coordination

• Support the end-to-end release process across web, native apps, and backend systems.

• Assist in creating, maintaining, and tracking release schedules deployment calendars and release change logs

• Coordinate release activities across environments (e.g. Canary, staging, production)

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Draft and distribute clear, editor‑friendly release communications outlining new features, fixes, and technical changes.

• Act as a point of contact during release windows, ensuring stakeholders are informed of progress and outcomes

• Support post‑release confirmations and summaries

Quality & Risk Support

• Work with QA and development teams to ensure releases meet agreed quality standards

• Help track defects, rollbacks, and release risks.

• Support release readiness checks (testing status, approvals, documentation)

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain release documentation and checklists

• Update release trackers, dashboards, and reports (e.g. deployments, rollbacks, known issues)

• Assist in identifying trends and improvement opportunities in the release process

Continuous Improvement

• Learn and apply best practices in release management

• Support retrospectives and contribute to process improvements

• Gradually take ownership of low‑risk or smaller releases as experience grows

Person Specification

Essential

• Strong organisational and coordination skills

• Clear written and verbal communication skills

• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.

• Ability to work calmly in time‑sensitive release windows

• Basic understanding of software development lifecycles (SLDC)

Desirable

• Exposure to release management, QA, DevOps, or project coordination

• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum environments

• Experience with tools such as Team City, Github, Jira, Confluence, Excel, or similar release management systems

• Awareness of web or mobile application releases

Personal Attributes

• Proactive and eager to learn

• Comfortable working with technical and non‑technical stakeholders

• Methodical, reliable, and accountable

• Team‑focused with a strong sense of ownership

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to
expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)

• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at
the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company
contribution.

• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.

• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and
reloadable cards)

• Subsidised canteen

• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)

• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)

• Our Employee Assistance Programme

• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation,
age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process