Cyngn
Senior Program Manager – Release Management
Mountain View, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$175kDetected 146 days ago
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About the role
- The ideal candidate combines deep release management expertise with a strategic perspective to align engineering, product, and customer-facing teams around shared delivery goals.
Responsibilities
- Own the release management lifecycle from planning through deployment, including release readiness criteria, go/no-go decisions, and post-release retrospectives.
- Define and maintain release schedules that account for hardware/software dependencies, customer commitments, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive program-level planning, tracking, and risk management across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Develop and maintain release governance processes, including branching strategies, freeze windows, and rollback procedures in collaboration with engineering leads.
- Identify systemic risks and blockers across programs and drive resolution with appropriate urgency and escalation.
- Build and report on program and release KPIs, surfacing insights that inform leadership decisions on scope, schedule, and resource trade-offs.
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans.
- Lead cross-functional release readiness reviews, integration testing coordination, and customer rollout sequencing.
- To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced leaders to join us and move this field forward.
- If you like to build, tinker, and create with a team of trusted and passionate colleagues, then Cyngn is the place for you.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in program or project management within a technical environment, with direct ownership of release management processes.
- Deep experience with Jira administration, including workflow configuration, reporting, and cross-project coordination.
- Strong command of Agile methodologies and SDLC practices, including experience adapting them to hardware-coupled development cycles.
- Track record of bringing order to complex, fast-moving programs without slowing teams down.
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-team programs involving both software and hardware components.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- able to drive alignment across engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Benefits & Perks
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
- advanced degree a plus.
- Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, or other safety-critical industries strongly preferred.
Compensation
- $140k-$175k
Benefits
- This means our employees not only work in close-knit teams with mentorship from company leaders-they also get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.
Company info
- Key reasons to join Cyngn: We are small and big.
- We are small and big.
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