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About the Role
Aurora's Product Operations team is seeking an innovative, solutions-oriented leader to own the software release cycle end-to-end, from build readiness through rollout. This role partners closely with Aurora Driver and Service Engineering, Launch Operations, and Product Ops & Platform Enablement. You'll be accountable for software Go/No-Go decisions and the primary translator of engineering roadmaps into an operational readiness plan. Success requires technical fluency in software release management, a data-driven outlook, exceptional communication skills with strong executive presence, the ability to bring ambiguity into focus in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the overarching operations release strategy across software, autonomous systems, and fleet operations, ensuring our release and rollout framework scales seamlessly with business and fleet growth.
- Define and institute company-wide release readiness and risk gating standards, serving as the accountable authority for the evaluation framework leadership relies on to clear commercial deployments.
- Partner directly with VP and Director-level leaders across Engineering, Product, and Commercial Operations to align multi-year capability roadmaps with commercial and business GTM expansion targets.
- Unify release governance across complex, interdependent software, hardware, and platform changes—resolving top-level trade-offs and cross-departmental dependencies when release timelines conflict with operational readiness.
- Define, own, and report on enterprise release predictability, defect escape metrics, and roadmap-to-readiness lead times for executive leadership.
- Standardize backlog hygiene and defect escalation pathways across the software and operational release pipelines, ensuring systemic feedback loops exist between field performance and engineering.
- Own and evolve the overall release strategy across autonomous operations, spanning the entire software release cycle, from build readiness through rollout, in partnership with Software Engineering.
- Own backlog hygiene and defect escalation paths across the software release pipeline, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks between Engineering and Operations.
- Partner with Product Ops & Platform Enablement on releases that span both software and hardware/platform changes, deferring Go/No-Go authority to them for the hardware/platform components.
- Own and report on release predictability, defect escape rate, and roadmap-to-readiness lead time.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in program/product operations, technical program management, or release management, ideally in a software-driven environment with adjacent hardware dependencies (automotive, robotics, or similar)
- Demonstrated experience owning a software release cycle end-to-end, including build readiness, rollout, and defect management
- Proven track record of building or improving feature and bug tracking systems and processes at scale
- Strong cross-functional stakeholder management — this role sits between Engineering and Operations and needs credibility with both
- Comfort operating in a fast-scaling, R&D-to-commercial transition environment — someone who builds repeatable process without over-engineering it around a moving technical target
- Strong analytical and communication skills, able to translate technical release data into clear, actionable recommendations for both technical and executive audiences
Skills
- Technical fluency in software release management
- Data-driven outlook
- Exceptional communication skills
- Strong executive presence
- Ability to bring ambiguity into focus in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or another safety-critical software domain
- Familiarity with how software releases interact with hardware/platform dependencies
- Background in technical program management or software release engineering
- Experience working with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc.) for release metrics tracking
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or equivalent tools for release and backlog tracking
Location
- San Francisco
- Pittsburgh
- Dallas
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Onsite (3 days per week minimum)
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- San Francisco: $179,000 - $287,000 per year
- Pittsburgh and Dallas: $162,000 - $259,000 per year
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation
About the Company
- Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
- The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
- At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge.
- We bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values.
- We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
- We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy, and our ability to lead effectively.
- At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety.
- Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.
Equal Opportunity
- Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
- Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
- For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.