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THE PERSON:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Feature Planning & Roadmap Alignment
- Partner with multiple business units and product owners to gather, consolidate, and align feature requests into a cohesive release roadmap.
- Facilitate roadmap planning sessions, sprint reviews, and milestone reviews across engineering, product, and program management teams.
- Track feature commitments, dependencies, and delivery timelines; proactively surface risks and propose mitigation strategies.
- Maintain a single source of truth for release scope, feature status, and schedule across all stakeholder groups.
- Communicate roadmap updates clearly and consistently to leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Drive alignment on feature prioritization decisions when competing demands arise across BUs.
- Own and manage the incoming bug triage process — evaluate, classify, and route defects to the appropriate engineering owners with speed and accuracy.
- Lead regular triage meetings with engineering leads, QA, and product owners to review open issues and drive prioritization decisions.
- Track all triaged issues through their full lifecycle — from initial report to root cause analysis, fix, validation, and closure.
- Escalate high-severity and release-blocking issues to the appropriate stakeholders and ensure timely resolution.
- Define and enforce triage SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and report on triage health metrics (open/closed rates, aging issues, escape rates).
- Collaborate with QA and validation teams to ensure bug fixes are properly verified before release sign-off.
- Plan and coordinate software releases across multiple teams and BUs, ensuring all entry and exit criteria are met.
- Manage release schedules, release notes, and go/no-go decisions in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
- Maintain release dashboards and status reports for executive and stakeholder visibility.
- Drive continuous improvement of release processes, tooling, and workflows.
- Proven experience working across multiple BUs or product lines in a large, matrixed organization.
- Strong background in bug triage processes, defect lifecycle management, and issue tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and release planning frameworks.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycles (SDLC) in hardware/software co-development environments is a plus.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, drive decisions, and maintain momentum across large, distributed teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Master's degree preferred.
LOCATIONS:
- Open to US locations or Canada
#LI-EV1
AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
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- Apple4

- PayPal3

- Thales2
- Future Secure AI2

- AMD1

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- Electronics & Hardware6
- Banking & Financial Services3
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Release Manager Jobs in Austin: Frequently Asked Questions
How many release manager jobs are there in Austin?
There are 35+ release manager openings in Austin, Texas on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. New positions post regularly as Austin employers hire.
Which companies hire release managers in Austin?
Employers hiring release managers in Austin include Apple, PayPal, and Thales, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote release manager jobs in Austin?
Yes. About 44% of release manager openings tied to Austin are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in and around Austin.
Which industries hire the most release managers in Austin?
Austin release manager roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
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