Senior Release Manager

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🏄 California, Oregon, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $128k - $199k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Agility Robotics

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

Logistics • Manufacturing • Hardware

Agility Robotics is a leading manufacturer of mobile manipulation robots, known for their humanoid robot Digit. The company focuses on deploying its robots in commercial settings, such as material handling workflows, to enhance productivity across various industries including third-party logistics, manufacturing, and retail & eCommerce. With their innovative cloud automation solution, Agility Arc, these robots provide game-changing automation solutions. Agility Robotics aims to revolutionize labor by integrating humanoid robots in settings where meaningful work and economic value are crucial.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end release process for the robot platform across software, firmware, hardware, and field operations teams • Define release scope, objectives, timelines, entry and exit criteria, and release readiness reviews • Plan and run release calendars for robot software, firmware, and cloud services, including major, minor, patch, and hotfix releases • Manage release cadence to balance innovation with production stability • Lead go/no-go decisions based on QA and V&V test and quality results • Run blameless post-release reviews and drive root-cause follow-up • Establish standardized change control, version management, release branching, policies, documentation, and traceability • Maintain configuration integrity across robot platforms and hardware variants • Partner with Issue Management, Systems Engineering, and Test teams on release vehicles and validation strategies • Coordinate integration testing across hardware, software, and AI subsystems • Coordinate field readiness assessments, deployment scenario validation, and customer acceptance criteria • Drive resolution of defects, integration issues, and regression failures • Introduce release trains and standardized pipelines; remove manual steps and improve build and release efficiency • Plan staged OTA rollouts through internal fleets, canary sites, rollout rings, and general availability • Establish rollback criteria, automated rollback hooks, and production contingency plans • Coordinate customer-site schedules and acceptance criteria • Maintain incident playbooks and support incident response and post-deployment issue resolution • Track release metrics and instrument CI/CD, signing, artifact, and OTA pipelines • Tag releases in telemetry, logging, and tracing systems and build dashboards and alerts for stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of release management experience for complex integrated systems involving hardware, firmware, and software • Proven track record managing releases in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or similar hardware-software domains • Experience coordinating cross-functional teams through complex product development and deployment cycles • Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements • Hands-on experience building release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment orchestration using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Buildkite • Strong understanding of SDLC, configuration management, and version control best practices • Experience with Git and issue tracking tools such as Jira or GitHub, including severity-based triage and release criteria • Experience instrumenting delivery and fleet health with observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Foxglove, Datadog, or Sentry • Proficiency in Python and Bash/Shell for automation and data analysis • Experience with OTA updates, versioning, canary and ring-based rollouts, rollback design, and fleet state tracking • Understanding of release dependencies across software, firmware, and hardware variants • Familiarity with release health metrics and defining SLIs/SLOs for deployed devices • Ownership mentality, strong technical communication, ability to influence without authority, data-driven decision-making, analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and comfort with ambiguity • Current authorization to work in the United States • Bonus points: experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or advanced manufacturing automation; familiarity with ROS 2; release train models; automated release notes and artifact management; artifact signing and secure update chains; Docker; fleet issue triage and root-cause analysis

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) Plan with a 6% company match • Company stock options • 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees • Benefits eligibility on the first day of employment • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, for exempt employees • 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually, for non-exempt employees • Catered lunches four times a week and healthy snacks and refreshments at Salem and Pittsburgh locations • Generous paid parental leave programs • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs • Relocation assistance for eligible roles • Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles

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