Release Manager

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About Us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

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The Role - Product Release Manager

• Assume full ownership of end-to-end pre- and post-release processes
• Establish and own processes for Release contents, including documentation, release notes, testing, coverage, quality measures, delivery.
• Manage bugs fixing process, issue resolutions and change requests and change management.
• Create and implement an end-to-end SW release plan and process, using JIRA work flows, for all stake holders and steps.
• Keep release cadence and cycles - daily, weekly and major/long - to both internal and external customers.
• Track and report in a routine and timely manner - progress, internal MS, JAMA based requirements traceability, Report status of release issues.
• Implement release dashboards with high program visibility.
• Ensure release compliance with SOTIF, ISO26262 and ASPICE requirements.
• Proactively identify and report on release program gaps in teams and processes, and work closely with SW and product teams to implement critical corrective actions.
• Work closely with engineering teams to implement CI/CD solutions according to customer requirements for release

Key Responsibilities

• Full responsibility for the release process and release cadence.
• Coordination of release work steps between all internal stake holders.
• Alignment with external stake holders, management of release process to customers. Manage change-control-board (CCB) with customers and internal stake holders.
• Documentation , KPIs and traceability of the release process according to Wayve policies and automotive safety and quality standards.

Supporting Responsibilities

• Work with other groups to identify KPIs and develop methods for capturing them.

Experience:

• 10 years of experience in managing release and release processes in the automotive industry, for external Tier1/Car-OEM customers with strong preference for ADAS and AV embedded SW applications.

About You

In order to set you up for success as a Product Release Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:

Essential Skills

• Knowledge of ASPICE, ISO-26262 and SOTIF requirements and processes.
• Knowledge of Embedded SW CI/CD processes in the automotive industry.
• JIRA process and structure development and application
• JAMA based SW and product requirements management,
• Release automation frameworks
• GiT based branching process management
• Development of Metrics, KPIs, Reports and Dashboards using industry standard tools (Looker, Grafana )
• Experience in automotive industry - preferably in ADAS/AV related products.

Preferred

• Knowledge of car-OEMs and Tier1 release and CI pipelines.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.