Release Readiness & Demo Lead - Tax Transformation

As the Release Readiness & Demo Lead for Tax Transformation applications, you will support end-to-end readiness for feature releases and drive clear, effective stakeholder engagement. You will own Program Increment (PI) demos for TTO products, coordinate targeted "What's New?" release demos for the tax practice, and produce accurate release notes and enablement materials to support adoption. Partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, QA, Business Testing, and Change Management, you will help stakeholders understand changes, reduce post-release issues, and accelerate adoption across functional groups.

Recruiting for this role ends on May 31, 2026.

Work you'll do
As a Release Readiness & Demo Lead on the Tax Transformation Office team, you will be responsible for:

• Building and managing release readiness plans per increment/release, including milestones, inputs, owners, and dependencies.
• Confirming final feature scope and known limitations in partnership with Product Management and Engineering; maintaining a single source of truth for release content.
• Owning PI demo planning and production, including run-of-show, agenda, sequencing, timing, storyline, and contributor coordination.
• Ensuring the establishment of stable demo environments, including accounts, data sets, permissions, test scripts, contingency flows; capturing Q&A and publishing readouts and follow-ups.
• Planning and orchestrating targeted "What's New?" demos for specific releases and audiences; tailoring messaging for functional stakeholders and coordinating assets with OCM.
• Coordinating Business Testing with QA and test leads, reviewing scripts for completeness and role coverage, and translating results into bugs, enhancements, or backlog items.

The team
The Tax Transformation Office (TTO) advances Deloitte's tax platforms and products by aligning product strategy, engineering, business testing, and change management to deliver high-quality, adoptable releases. We partner with Product Owners, Engineering, QA, Business Testing, Change Management, Support, and functional stakeholder groups to ensure releases are well understood, effectively demoed, and accompanied by accurate enablement materials that drive adoption.

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 - 3 days per week.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, business, or a closely aligned field.
• 3+ years delivering software-focused initiatives in release readiness, product enablement, program delivery, or product operations.
• Hands-on use of a DevOps work management platform such as Microsoft Azure DevOps to analyze features and track work items.
• Ownership of planning and delivering stakeholder demos, including dry runs and executive-facing sessions.
• Authored release notes and/or change communications for production software releases.
• Practical application of Agile delivery frameworks such as Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Ability to travel 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• One of the following active accreditations obtained, in process, or willing and able to obtain:
• Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA
• If not CPA eligible:
• Licensed Attorney
• Enrolled Agent
• Technology Certifications:
• Certified SAFe Agilist
• Certified SAFe Scrum Master
• Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner
• ITIL Certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Program Management Professional (PgMP)
• Microsoft Azure

Preferred:

• Ownership of planning and delivering stakeholder demos, including dry runs and executive-facing sessions.
• Coordination of cross-functional Business Testing with QA, including test script review and results triage.
• Setup and maintenance of demo environments, including data, permissions, and contingency paths.
• Management of RAID (risks, actions, issues, decisions) for product releases.
• Creation of enablement assets such as demo scripts, FAQs, and slide support for stakeholder audiences.
• Facilitation of Program Increment (PI) demos or similar multi-team demos in Agile/SAFe environments.
• Use of Microsoft Azure DevOps or Jira to maintain traceability from features to work items and release scope.
• Development of release notes and "What's New" communications aligned to stakeholder personas.
• Collaboration with Change Management to plan training, communications, and adoption metrics.
• Familiarity with ISTQB-aligned testing practices for UAT/business testing handoffs.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $84,980 to $193,440.

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