About This Role
This high-impact, full-time role is for a Release Manager to own end-to-end release coordination across FPGA, embedded software, software packages, and documentation for a deep-tech scaleup. Based in the PMO, you will have absolute authority over the release process and go/no-go decisions across every contributing team, setting and enforcing rigorous release discipline with department heads.
Responsibilities
- Define release-readiness criteria, run gate reviews, and make the ultimate go/no-go call
- Own the release calendar, dictating what each component must deliver, in what state, and by when
- Co-define exact authority boundaries with the CTO, PMO, and component leads to ensure seamless operation
- Act as the definitive point of coordination across component release managers and the integration lead
- Track hardware revisions and availability as a critical release dependency, coordinating with the hardware team
- Surface cross-component risks early and work closely with Product on scope tradeoffs
- Maintain an accurate, live view of release readiness across all components and chair cross-component readiness reviews
- Set a high bar for what it means to be "release-ready" and develop component release managers to consistently meet that standard
- Coordinate a global release dashboard pulling in readiness data from each component and from integration tests
- Treat documentation as a fully tracked release stream with its own readiness criteria
Requirements
- Strong track record managing releases across multiple interdependent teams, ideally spanning hardware, firmware, and software
- Experience running strict release readiness and gate processes, going far beyond standard status reporting
- Experience coaching release practices in people who do not formally report to you
- Solid technical understanding across embedded software, firmware, and hardware release cycles
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the proven ability to coordinate and influence without formal authority over most people
- Proven ability to set, manage, and enforce processes with teams outside your direct reporting line
- Highly comfortable driving clarity and moving forward from incomplete or evolving information
Benefits
- Take on a central operational leadership role with direct authority over how cutting-edge technology reaches the market
- Work at the absolute cutting edge of technology, solving complex integration challenges in the quantum ecosystem
- Be part of a fast-moving, high-performance team with significant opportunities to define operational excellence as the company scales globally
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