Automotive Product Release Lead

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia; Puchong; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz Tech Malaysia (MBTMY) is seeking an experienced Release Manager to coordinate automotive software and hardware components across their full lifecycle, from development to production. You will manage deliveries, releases, and gate readiness, ensuring documentation and compliance.

You will lead cross-functional teams, assess risks, and communicate with production plants, suppliers and partners. Fluent English and Mandarin are required; German is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a Business Administration, Project Management or a comparable field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in project management or release management, including experience leading cross-functional projects in an automotive, software, technology, or engineering environment.
• Experience with automotive development, release, configuration or product-lifecycle processes is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and coordinate assigned automotive software and hardware components across the full lifecycle, from development planning and sampling through release, vehicle integration, production support and continuous improvement.
• Plan and track component deliveries, build content, release packages, milestones, prerequisites, approvals and readiness for vehicle-project and production gates.
• Maintain component configuration and traceability, including part numbers, software versions, hardware variants, control units, release notes and project documentation.
• Coordinate change requests by assessing impacts, aligning affected stakeholders and tracking implementation through completion.
• Prepare and support release decisions, gate reviews and release-management activities, ensuring test evidence, known issues, compliance records and required documentation are complete.
• Monitor component risks, defects, deviations, dependencies and late changes; drive resolution and elevate decisions when timing, quality or release readiness is at risk.
• Coordinate engineering teams, component owners, project stakeholders, production plants, suppliers and external partners to secure delivery quality, timing and documentation compliance.
• Support vehicle integration, production ramp-up, plant topics, after-sales feedback, software-update readiness and defect resolution for the assigned component.
• Responsibility and Scope for Decision-Making
• Accountable for the readiness, release coordination, configuration integrity and lifecycle support of assigned components.
• Authorized to coordinate component priorities and release actions, recommend release decisions, and elevate risks or deviations affecting quality, timing, compliance or production readiness.

Skills

Release lifecycles

Configuration management

Change control

Stakeholder coordination

English

Mandarin

German advantage

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or Business Administration

Job description

Mercedes-Benz Tech Malaysia (MBTMY) is seeking an experienced Release Manager to coordinate automotive software and hardware components across their full lifecycle, from development to production. You will manage deliveries, releases, and gate readiness, ensuring documentation and compliance.

You will lead cross-functional teams, assess risks, and communicate with production plants, suppliers and partners. Fluent English and Mandarin are required; German is a plus.