Hybrid Senior Manager, Software Release Programs

General Motors Company; Mountain View, Milford Charter Township (CA, MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

General Motors in Mountain View, CA (Hybrid) is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Software Release Program Management across multiple sites, guiding release planning, risk surfacing, and cross-functional delivery for automotive software.

You will build a high-performing team, improve release frequency, integrate validation, and align stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading technical program managers or a program-management organization.
• 10+ years of experience managing software release, delivery, or release-engineering programs for complex embedded, platform, or comparable software.
• Proven track record of increasing release frequency, reducing cycle time, and improving delivery predictability.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of 10-20 release professionals.
• Set standards, playbooks, and rhythms for consistent, high-quality execution.
• Make releases faster and more predictable by removing bottlenecks from code to vehicle delivery.
• Create integrated plans with milestones, risks, and go/no-go criteria.
• Lead release planning, governance, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Align upstream development with downstream validation and OTA delivery.

Skills

Leadership of TPMs

Release management

CI/CD practices

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

General Motors in Mountain View, CA (Hybrid) is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Software Release Program Management across multiple sites, guiding release planning, risk surfacing, and cross-functional delivery for automotive software.

You will build a high-performing team, improve release frequency, integrate validation, and align stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and on-time delivery.