Senior Release Manager

The posting, as Agility Robotics wrote it

Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.

About the Role

As a Senior Release Manager at Agility Robotics, you'll own the end-to-end release process for our robot platform, ensuring seamless coordination across software, firmware, hardware, and field operations teams. You will triage the issues that decide whether a release ships, build the automation that makes releases repeatable, and instrument the release path so every release is measurable, observable, and reversible.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical execution and cross-functional leadership. You'll help establish release management as a capability that enables Agility Robotics to ship confidently and frequently while maintaining operational excellence in deployed customer environments.

About the Work

Release Planning & Execution

• Define release scope, objectives, and timelines in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Field Operations teams
• Plan and run the release calendar for robot software, firmware, and cloud services, including major, minor, patch, and hotfix releases
• Manage release cadence to balance rapid innovation with stability requirements for production deployments
• Define entry and exit criteria, run release readiness reviews, and lead go/no-go decisions based on test and quality results from QA and V&V teams
• Run blameless post-release reviews and drive root-cause follow-up

Release Process & Configuration Management

• Establish and enforce standardized release processes including change control, version management, and release branching
• Maintain configuration integrity across robot platforms and hardware variants
• Define and maintain release policies, documentation standards, and traceability requirements so every release can be tied to what changed and who approved it
• Partnership with the Issue Management team to ensure we have a release vehicle for upcoming issues that affect the fleet.

System Integration & Validation

• 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

Release Improvements

• Introduce release train models and standardized pipelines so releases are predictable and low-touch
• Continuously remove manual steps, and measure th

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fit 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 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 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.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.

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