Partner Operations Manager

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$124k–$193k

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AgilityRobotics The Partner Operations Manager at Agility Robotics owns the end-to-end release process for the robot platform, coordinating software, firmware, hardware, and field operations teams. The role includes defining release scope, managing cadence, and ensuring quality and stability.

Responsibilities

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.
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

Qualification

Technical SkillsDomain KnowledgeOTA and fleet deploymentExperience in roboticsWhy Join Agility Robotics?

Required

5+ years of release management experience for complex integrated systems involving hardware, firmware, and software
Proven track record managing releases in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or similar hardware-software domains
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams through complex product development and deployment cycles
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements
Technical Skills
Hands-on experience building release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment orchestration (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Buildkite)
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), configuration management, and version control best practices
Experience with version control (Git) and issue tracking (Jira, GitHub), including severity-based triage and release criteria
Experience instrumenting delivery and fleet health with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Foxglove, Datadog, Sentry)
Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash/Shell) for automation and data analysis
Domain Knowledge
OTA and fleet deployment: Experience with OTA updates, versioning, canary and ring-based rollouts, rollback design, and fleet state tracking

Preferred

Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or advanced manufacturing automation
Familiarity with ROS 2 and its build and packaging tooling
Experience implementing release train models in hardware-software systems
Experience with automated release note generation and artifact management
Experience with artifact signing and secure update chains
Experience with containerization (Docker)
Experience triaging fleet issues and driving root-cause analysis with software teams
Why Join Agility Robotics?