Zoox

Software Platforms and Product

ReleaseManager

$140–190k Foster City, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Release Manager at Zoox. Skills: Release management, Automation. Own software release process. Lead releases”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship safest software; Ship reliable software

Industry & Context.

Software Platforms and Product
Problems you'll solve

Analyze release blockers; Enable successful resolution

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3-5+ years of experience, Software version control systems, Git, Command line, Release readiness criteria, Automated manual processes

Nice to Have

CI build systems, Triage failures, Process improvement projects, Automation projects, Programming structure, Compilation process, Multi-platform build environments, Fluency in programming language, AI tools

What You'll Do.

Own software release process

Track release content

Update testing strategies

Measure system performance

Coordinate with cross-divisional teams

Optimize resource efficiency

Guide test methodology

Assemble cross-organizational project teams

Deliver towards release milestones

Analyze release blockers

Enable successful resolution

Evaluate efficiency of processes

Improve change management practices

Improve release management practices

Automate manual release processes

Conduct release reviews

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-divisional teams; Development stakeholders; QA stakeholders; Vehicle operations stakeholders

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Process & Methodology

Release milestones, Change management

Full Job Description

## Description Autonomous vehicles have some of the largest, most complex software ever shipped in a safety-critical environment. Solving that problem is one of the most exciting technical challenges of our lifetime. As part of the Release Management team at Zoox, you will own all aspects of the software release process and help accelerate our product development by leading various weekly / fortnightly / monthly releases focused on ensuring we are shipping the safest and most reliable software possible.    As developers build new features, the release management team will be responsible for tracking and knowing the content of each release, updating testing strategies, measuring system performance, and escalating issues seen during on-vehicle and offline testing. These efforts are critical to maintaining our code quality and ensuring our service capabilities are operating as intended. You will coordinate with cross-divisional teams to accelerate releases, increase the quality of our autonomous driving products, and optimize resource efficiency. Your ability to understand the overall system design and component interaction to help guide test methodology for functional and safety sign-off is crucial to the overall success of the release team. Accountability and integrity are core to Zoox teams.      ## In this role, you will Work with all stakeholders in Development, QA, and vehicle operations to assemble cross-organizational project teams, tracking progress and delivering towards release milestones Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution Continuously evaluate the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management and improve practices Automation of existing manual release processes Change management, scoping, conduct release reviews, communicate status to all stakeholders, escalation as per the SLAs ## Qualifications 3-5+ years of experience working with large, complex products Under

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