Engineering & Release Manager

Movember's $100m annual campaign doesn't run on good intentions alone. It runs on reliable, well-built software, operated by a team that owns what it ships. As Engineering & Release Manager, you'll sit at the centre of two interconnected responsibilities: leading and developing Movember's engineering team, and owning the release and build management processes that get quality software into production safely and on schedule. On the people side, you'll be a trusted leader who helps engineers grow. You'll set clear expectations, run meaningful 1:1s, build individual development plans, and foster a culture of innovative engineering practice alongside your peer leaders, the Staff Engineer and Solution Architect. You'll champion psychological safety, continuous learning, and the kind of craft-driven team environment where engineers do their best work and stay. On the operational side, you'll be the gatekeeper for change. You'll own release governance, quality gates, and deployment pipelines, and you'll embed a genuine 'you build it, you run it' model of accountability across the team. Platform observability is yours too: dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and the insight needed to drive continuous improvement in reliability and incident response in close collaboration with DevOps. When major campaign periods approach, you'll run dress rehearsals, coordinate disaster recovery testing, and roster the team for on-call monitoring so that when it counts most, everything runs flawlessly. This role also sits at the frontier of Movember's active journey to embed AI across its technology and operational practice. We're looking for a leader who is genuinely excited by that challenge and ready to help build an engineering culture where AI is a natural part of how great work gets done. Reporting to the Director of Technology & Campaign Operations and based in Melbourne, this is a full-time role for someone who leads with both technical credibility and genuine human warmth.