[Hiring] Deployment Project Manager @Builders FirstSource

Role Description

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:
  • Integrated deployment plan
  • Deployment milestones
  • Cross-workstream deployment dependencies
  • Readiness governance
  • Cutover planning & coordination
  • Go/No-Go readiness view
  • Deployment risks & escalations
  • Go-live coordination
  • Hypercare coordination
• Partners with:
  • Program / Project Managers
  • Product & Business teams
  • Technical Integration PM
  • QA / Testing
  • Release / Engineering teams
  • Change, Training & Communications
  • Business Operations
  • Service / Support teams
  • 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.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across business and technical teams.
• Strong integrated planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive communication skills.
• Experience with cutover, release readiness, Go/No-Go governance, and production stabilization.
• Comfortable operating across multiple workstreams without replacing the accountability of individual workstream owners.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to drive decisions and escalate effectively.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 2+ years relevant work experience.
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• PTO (including paid sick time).
• 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members).

Work Environment / Physical Activity

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional travel may be required.