Release Manager

Entangled Future; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact on market delivery

Cutting-edge quantum tech projects

Fast-moving, high-performance team

Job summary

Qblox in Delft, Netherlands, seeks a mid-level Release Manager to lead release planning and governance for multi-disciplinary hardware and software projects. You will drive readiness criteria, gate reviews, and final go/no-go decisions, while coordinating calendars and ensuring clear authority boundaries with CTO and product leads.

The role emphasizes process leadership, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to move forward from evolving information in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Complex release management across hardware, firmware, and software teams.
• Experience running strict release readiness and gate processes.
• Experience coaching release practices in people who do not formally report to you.

Responsibilities

• Release Authority & Planning
• Release Decisions: define release-readiness criteria, run gate reviews, and make go/no-go calls.
• Calendar & Requirements: own release calendar and deadlines for components.
• Boundary Definition (RACI): co-define authority with CTO, PMO, and leads.

Skills

Release management

Process leadership

Mentorship

Job description

Release Manager at Qblox, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. A mid-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under hardware engineering.

• Process Enforcement: A proven ability to set, manage, and enforce processes with teams outside your direct reporting line.
• Adaptability: Highly comfortable driving clarity and moving forward from incomplete or evolving information.

A security screening and reference check may form part of the selection process for this position .

Responsibilities

• Release Authority & Planning
• Release Decisions: Define release-readiness criteria, run gate reviews, and make the ultimate go/no-go call. While you have full authority over the release itself, department heads will maintain full authority over their people, technical decisions, and resourcing.
• Calendar & Requirements: Own the release calendar, dictating what each component must deliver, in what state, and by when (leaving the internal methodology, tooling, and branching up to the teams).
• Boundary Definition (RACI): Co-define exact authority boundaries with the CTO, PMO, and component leads to ensure seamless operation.

Requirements

• Complex Release Management: Strong track record managing releases across multiple interdependent teams, ideally spanning hardware, firmware, and software.
• Process Leadership: Experience running strict release readiness and gate processes, going far beyond standard status reporting.
• Mentorship: Experience coaching release practices in people who do not formally report to you.

Benefits

• Impact: Take on a central operational leadership role with direct authority over how our cutting-edge technology reaches the market.
• Innovation: Work at the absolute cutting edge of technology, solving complex integration challenges in the quantum ecosystem.
• Growth: Be part of a fast-moving, high-performance team with significant opportunities to define operational excellence as we scale globally.