Hybrid Staff Release Manager

at Agility Robotics

• Job title: Staff Release Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Staff Release Manager at Agility Robotics managing end-to-end release process for humanoid robots. Driving cross-functional collaboration and ensuring quality and safety in releases.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end release process for the humanoid robot platform, ensuring seamless coordination across software, firmware, hardware, and AI subsystems.
• Establish release management as a strategic capability, enabling Agility to ship confidently and frequently while maintaining operational excellence in deployed customer environments.
• Define release scope, objectives, and timelines in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Field Operations teams.
• Develop comprehensive release plans that account for multi-subsystem dependencies, customer deployment schedules, and risk mitigation.
• Coordinate release activities across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, AI, and safety teams to ensure synchronized execution.
• Manage release cadence to balance rapid innovation with stability requirements for production deployments.
• Establish and enforce standardized release processes including configuration management, change control, and version management.
• Implement quality gates and release criteria that ensure functional safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.
• Define and maintain release policies, documentation standards, and traceability requirements.
• Drive issue triage and resolution tracking across teams, ensuring critical defects and field-reported issues are prioritized, resolved, and verified before release.
• Establish clear release acceptance criteria based on issue severity and customer impact, maintaining accountability for issue closure and verification.
• Partner with Systems Engineering and Test teams to develop comprehensive validation strategies for each release.
• Ensure thorough integration testing across hardware-software-AI subsystems to validate functionality, performance, safety, and reliability.
• Coordinate field readiness assessments including deployment scenario validation and customer acceptance criteria.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to resolve defects, integration issues, and regression failures.
• Coordinate release deployment to customer sites, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal operational disruption.
• Establish rollback procedures and contingency plans for production environments.
• Analyze field performance data and customer feedback to inform release quality improvements.
• Support incident response and post-deployment issue resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes, tools, and automation.
• Establish and track key release metrics (cycle time, defect escape rate, deployment success rate, rollback frequency).
• Implement best practices for release automation, CI/CD integration, and deployment orchestration.
• Foster a culture of quality, transparency, and continuous learning across release activities.

Requirements

• 6+ 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 safety-critical domains.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams through complex product development and deployment cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), configuration management, and version control best practices.
• Strong familiarity with systems engineering tools and processes (requirements management, MBSE, traceability).
• Experience with release automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment orchestration tools.
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools (DOORS, Jama, Cameo, or similar).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash/Shell) for automation and data analysis.
• Experience with version control (Git), issue tracking (Jira, GitHub), and build systems.
• Understanding of verification and validation principles for safety-critical systems.

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off: Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.