Director of Release Management

Team: Release Management

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Commitment: Full time

Workplace Type: hybrid

What your job will look like?

Lead and orchestrate the end-to-end release lifecycle for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle software products, from planning through delivery and post-release follow-up.
Own release planning, schedules, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables—ensuring releases are delivered on time, at high quality, and with controlled risk.
Proactively identify release risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies; drive mitigation plans and escalate when needed.
Partner closely with Development, Integration, QA, Product, Program Management, and other stakeholders to ensure release readiness and smooth execution.
Define, track, and communicate release-health metrics, providing clear visibility into progress, quality, risks, and areas for continuous improvement.
Serve as the central point of contact for release-related communication, including release plans, status updates, decisions, scope changes, and go/no-go milestones.
Establish and maintain release governance, including readiness criteria, approval processes, change-control practices, and retrospective reviews.
Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation for release artifacts, procedures, configurations, dependencies, and lessons learned.
Drive improvements to build, integration, and deployment workflows by developing and maintaining automation tools and scripts.
Promote best practices in CI/CD, software configuration management, release engineering, and DevOps across the organization.
Stay current with relevant industry trends and technologies, and translate them into practical improvements to Mobileye’s release processes and tooling.

All you need is:

 B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field - required.
At least 10 years of relevant industry experience, ideally in Release Management, DevOps, Software Engineering, or a similar role — required.**
Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional software releases in a large-scale engineering environment.
Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including release planning and delivery within iterative development cycles.
Excellent organizational, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple dependencies and competing priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Hebrew.
Hands-on experience with release and development tools such as Jira, GitLab, and Jenkins - an advantage.
Programming or scripting experience, preferably in Python - an advantage.
An M.Sc., MBA, or demonstrated experience working with large-scale, complex software systems - an advantage.