Key Notes
Release-cycle ownership combines decisions on which issues and changes ship with process improvements across engineering, product and operations. Five-plus years in release management, software engineering or a related field are essential, alongside SDLC, hardware-configuration, CI/CD and multi-platform release knowledge. This full-time London role is hybrid and works with SRE and DevOps on testing, automation and release tooling.
What You'll Work On
- Own release planning and coordination, maintaining predictable shipment rhythms while adapting priorities.
- Govern issue and change decisions, balancing release stability, speed and business goals.
- Identify release bottlenecks, establish dashboards and KPIs, escalate gaps and drive process improvement.
- Partner with SRE and DevOps teams to shape CI/CD, testing, automation and release-tool requirements.
- Act as the central source of release status, risks and timelines and run post-release reviews through corrective action.
Why This Role Matters
- Wayve’s fleet operations and product development depend on stable software releases; decisions about which changes ship balance release speed against that stability.
- Engineering and product teams can trace release status, risks and timelines through one central contact, while post-release reviews turn identified gaps into corrective action.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Five or more years in release management, software engineering or a related field is essential.
- Technical: Strong SDLC and release-management knowledge, including testing strategy, system integration, branching and versioning, is essential.
- Technical: Configuration-management knowledge, including hardware configurations, is essential.
- Technical: CI/CD and automation-tool experience, such as GitHub, Buildkite or CLI tooling, plus multi-platform release experience, is essential.
- Experience: Strong release trade-off judgement, problem solving and communication with engineers and leadership are essential.
- Preferred: Automotive, robotics or AI experience; system or bundle releases; third-party software; Agile or DevOps practice; and a relevant technical degree are desirable.