Senior Manager Software Product and Release Operations

You will own the end-to-end software release cycle, from build readiness through rollout. You will set release strategy, readiness and risk-governance standards, make software Go/No-Go decisions, align roadmaps with commercial expansion, and report release health metrics. You will also manage feature and defect escalation processes and coordinate releases involving software, hardware, and platform changes.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise-wide release strategy across software, autonomous systems, and fleet operations
• Define company-wide release readiness and risk-gating standards
• Align multi-year capability roadmaps with commercial expansion targets
• Unify governance for interdependent software, hardware, and platform releases
• Define and report release predictability, defect escape, and readiness metrics
• Standardize backlog hygiene and defect escalation pathways
• Own the software release and change-management cycle from build readiness through rollout
• Coordinate mixed software and hardware-platform releases

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in program operations, product operations, technical program management, or release management
• Experience owning a software release cycle end to end, including build readiness, rollout, and defect management
• Experience building or improving feature and bug-tracking systems and processes at scale
• Cross-functional stakeholder management experience
• Experience in a fast-scaling R&D-to-commercial transition environment
• Analytical and communication skills
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or another safety-critical software domain
• Familiarity with software and hardware-platform release dependencies
• Experience with BI tools for release metrics tracking
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or equivalent release and backlog-tracking tools

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation