Senior Manager Software Product and Release Operations
Aurora develops and commercially operates AI-powered self-driving freight technology through its Aurora Driver system.
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About Aurora Innovation, Inc.
Aurora is a public autonomous-vehicle technology company focused on self-driving freight. Its Aurora Driver combines hardware and AI software to operate trucks and underpins its driver-as-a-service trucking product.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
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.
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
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
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation