Release Manager

What your job will look like?

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Release Managers responsible for delivering ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle software releases.

- Define the team’s operating model, priorities, processes, and best practices for end-to-end release planning, execution, governance, and continuous improvement.

- Oversee complex release plans across multiple products, programs, and software components - ensuring alignment on scope, milestones, dependencies, quality, and readiness.

- Drive release governance, including release-readiness reviews, risk-management processes, change control, escalation paths, and go/no-go decision support.

- Partner with Development, Integration, QA, Product, Program Management, and senior leadership to align release strategy with business and product objectives.

- Ensure consistent, transparent communication of release plans, progress, risks, decisions, and changes to relevant stakeholders.

- Establish and track release-health KPIs, using data to identify bottlenecks, improve predictability, and strengthen delivery quality.

- Lead cross-functional resolution of critical release blockers, dependencies, and delivery risks.

- Promote standardization and scalability across release-management practices, documentation, tooling, and reporting.

- Drive automation and process improvements across build, integration, validation, and deployment pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and engineering teams.

- Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the Release Management team.

All you need is:

- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field - required.

- At least 10 years of relevant industry experience in Release Management, Program Management, DevOps, Software Engineering, or similar roles — required.

- At least 2–3 years of proven people-management or team-leadership experience — required.

- Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional software releases in a large-scale engineering environment.

- Proven ability to lead and develop professionals, set priorities, manage workload, and build effective team processes.

- Strong understanding of software-development lifecycles, release-management practices, CI/CD, configuration management, and quality processes.

- Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including planning and delivery in iterative development environments.

- Excellent stakeholder-management, communication, and decision-making skills, including the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to tracking release health and driving improvement.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Hebrew.

- Hands-on experience with tools such as Jira, GitLab, Jenkins, and relevant reporting or dashboarding tools - an advantage.

- Programming or scripting experience, preferably in Python — an advantage.

- An M.Sc., MBA, or experience working with large-scale, safety-critical, automotive, ADAS, or Autonomous Vehicle software systems — an advantage.