Senior Manager, Release Management
- Define and drive broad alignment on the vision, requirements, and roadmap for safety critical software release process and associated infrastructure.
- Implement and champion broad release process and tooling changes, ensuring they are broadly understood, robust, and executing efficiently. You are a go to process driver for release management processes across the company.
- Guide release managers in their partnership with release engineering, validation, and test teams to track releases through CI, simulation, on-road testing, and final deployment.
- Ensure software releases are shipping - moving through simulated and on road testing, verification and validation processes, and getting to an approved state, with high levels of confidence and stability. Collaborate with a wide range of teams across the company to get software release issues tracked to completion, including Software, Hardware, Product, Operations, and Safety.
- Ensure the appropriate communication channels exist to track and broadly communicate product and feature release status, facilitate release readiness, release/change control reviews, and coordinate product release activities including formulation of clear and concise release notes.
- Work with our external partners (e.g. government relations, business development) and internal stakeholders (e.g. development teams, operations) to drive alignment on the release schedule.
- Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identify gaps in communication related to release management across the organization.
- Ensure release managers are effectively executing release readiness reviews and facilitating go/no-go decisions for production deployments.
- Support incident management and rollback planning related to software releases.
- 7-10+ years of experience in software release management or release engineering for complex systems with both software and hardware components.
- Have operated at the intersection of product delivery, customer needs, and release management.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with experience tracking releases through development, test, and deployment phases.
- Experience with continuous integration and release automation systems (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub).
- Experience orchestrating cross-team efforts to address bugs and issues to resolution.
- Communication skills for a broad range of audiences: executives, individual engineers, larger technical teams, operations teams, external partners.
- Experience release engineering or release management for safety-critical systems.
- Familiarity with formal V&V (Verification & Validation) pipelines.
- Familiarity with safety and systems engineering best practices
- Familiarity with quality and safety standards for automotive, aerospace, or medical
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, machine learning
- Experience with a monorepo based build tool such as Bazel
- Familiarity with modern cloud-based software development (AWS)
- Familiarity with modern web development technologies
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