Director of Release Management

In this role, you will lead and develop a team of Release Managers, while owning the team’s processes, priorities, and execution standards.
You will oversee complex software releases across multiple products and programs, working closely with Development, Integration, QA, Product, Program Management, and senior leadership to ensure smooth, predictable, and high-quality delivery.

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 release and development tools such as Jira, GitLab, and Jenkins - an advantage.

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

• An M.Sc., MBA, or demonstrated experience working with large-scale, complex software systems - an advantage.