Release Manager

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About us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The role

At Wayve, you will help deliver the value of our breakthrough autonomous driving technology by ensuring our software systems are released reliably, on time, and with the stability needed to support fleet operations and product development. This means balancing fast-paced innovation with clarity, structure, and disciplined release practices.

We’re looking for someone pragmatic, methodical, and system-minded — someone who understands how releases fit into the broader engineering and product ecosystem, and who introduces processes and systems where they are needed to achieve stability, clarity, and business goals.

Key responsibilities:

• Release Planning & Coordination: Own release cycles, maintaining a steady and predictable shipment rhythm while adapting to business priorities.
• Issues & Change Management: Drive decisions on which issues or change requests must be included or deferred, balancing stability and speed.
• Bottleneck Identification & Improvement: Identify constraints in the release process (e.g. quality gaps, branching strategy, tooling) and drive improvements to resolve them. Implement dashboards and KPIs for program visibility, and proactively escalate gaps.
• Process & Systems building: Understand how releases fit into the wider system of engineering, operations, and model development, and build processes and frameworks that support clarity, stability, and business goals.
• Tooling & Automation Influence: Partner with SRE/DevOps to shape CI/CD, testing and release tooling. Defining requirements that improve developer experience and release efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure successful and stable releases.
• Clarity & Communication: Act as the central point of contact for release status, risks, and timelines, keeping stakeholders informed at the right level of detail.
• Continuous Improvement: Run post-release reviews and drive corrective actions across teams.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Release Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• 5+ years in release management, software engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and release management practices, including testing strategy, system integration, branching and versioning.
• Knowledge of configuration management including hardware configurations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (eg Github, Buildkite, CLI tools).
• Skilled at managing multi-platform releases.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making ability in release trade-offs.
• Good communication skills, comfortable working with engineers and presenting to leadership.

Desirable

• Experience in automotive, robotics, or AI industries.
• Experience managing system or bundle releases, including third-party software.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• BSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve.

To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.