# Release Manager

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $140k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Git, Python, CI/CD, Release Management, Change Management, Automation, Command Line, Version Control
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Own the software release process for autonomous vehicle systems, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking tests, and automating release workflows to ensure safe, reliable deployments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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

## Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience working with large, complex products
- Understanding of software version control systems, extensive knowledge of git and command line
- Excellent communication (Written and Verbal) and organizational skills
- Experience in defining release readiness criteria, ensuring all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
- You had a manual & boring process and you automated it using Python or any other programming language & using AI tools

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with CI build systems and ability to triage failures
- Experience working on large process improvement and/or automation projects and programs
- Broad understanding of programming structure (makefiles, headers, code) and compilation process (compile, link) experience with multi-platform (Unix, Windows, etc.) build environments
- Fluency in any programming language and using AI tools like cursor, claude, co-pilot, chatGPT, etc.

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