Technical Release Lead (Data Center GPU)

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THE ROLE:

 AMD is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Release Manager to join our Software Engineering organization. In this role, you will serve as a critical bridge between multiple Business Units and product owners, driving alignment on feature planning, release roadmaps, and issue resolution. You will also lead bug triage operations — ensuring incoming defects are accurately routed to the correct owners and driven to logical resolution within committed timelines.

THE PERSON:

This is a high-visibility role requiring strong cross-functional collaboration, technical acumen, and exceptional organizational skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Feature Planning & Roadmap Alignment
• Partner with multiple business units and product owners to gather, consolidate, and align feature requests into a cohesive release roadmap.
• Facilitate roadmap planning sessions, sprint reviews, and milestone reviews across engineering, product, and program management teams.
• Track feature commitments, dependencies, and delivery timelines; proactively surface risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Maintain a single source of truth for release scope, feature status, and schedule across all stakeholder groups.
• Communicate roadmap updates clearly and consistently to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Drive alignment on feature prioritization decisions when competing demands arise across BUs.
• Own and manage the incoming bug triage process — evaluate, classify, and route defects to the appropriate engineering owners with speed and accuracy.
• Lead regular triage meetings with engineering leads, QA, and product owners to review open issues and drive prioritization decisions.
• Track all triaged issues through their full lifecycle — from initial report to root cause analysis, fix, validation, and closure.
• Escalate high-severity and release-blocking issues to the appropriate stakeholders and ensure timely resolution.
• Define and enforce triage SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and report on triage health metrics (open/closed rates, aging issues, escape rates).
• Collaborate with QA and validation teams to ensure bug fixes are properly verified before release sign-off.
• Plan and coordinate software releases across multiple teams and BUs, ensuring all entry and exit criteria are met.
• Manage release schedules, release notes, and go/no-go decisions in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
• Maintain release dashboards and status reports for executive and stakeholder visibility.
• Drive continuous improvement of release processes, tooling, and workflows.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience working across multiple BUs or product lines in a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong background in bug triage processes, defect lifecycle management, and issue tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and release planning frameworks.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles (SDLC) in hardware/software co-development environments is a plus.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, drive decisions, and maintain momentum across large, distributed teams. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

•  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Master's degree preferred.

LOCATIONS:

• Open to US locations or Canada

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.