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WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. THE ROLE: AMD is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Release Manager to join our Software Engineering organization. In this role, you will serve as a critical bridge between multiple Business Units and product owners, driving alignment on feature planning, release roadmaps, and issue resolution. You will also lead bug triage operations — ensuring incoming defects are accurately routed to the correct owners and driven to logical resolution within committed timelines. THE PERSON:This is a high-visibility role requiring strong cross-functional collaboration, technical acumen, and exceptional organizational skills. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Feature Planning & Roadmap Alignment</li><li>Partner with multiple business units and product owners to gather, consolidate, and align feature requests into a cohesive release roadmap.</li><li>Facilitate roadmap planning sessions, sprint reviews, and milestone reviews across engineering, product, and program management teams.</li><li>Track feature commitments, dependencies, and delivery timelines; proactively surface risks and propose mitigation strategies.</li><li>Maintain a single source of truth for release scope, feature status, and schedule across all stakeholder groups.</li><li>Communicate roadmap updates clearly and consistently to leadership and cross-functional teams.</li><li>Drive alignment on feature prioritization decisions when competing demands arise across BUs.</li><li>Own and manage the incoming bug triage process — evaluate, classify, and route defects to the appropriate engineering owners with speed and accuracy.</li><li>Lead regular triage meetings with engineering leads, QA, and product owners to review open issues and drive prioritization decisions.</li><li>Track all triaged issues through their full lifecycle — from initial report to root cause analysis, fix, validation, and closure.</li><li>Escalate high-severity and release-blocking issues to the appropriate stakeholders and ensure timely resolution.</li><li>Define and enforce triage SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and report on triage health metrics (open/closed rates, aging issues, escape rates).</li><li>Collaborate with QA and validation teams to ensure bug fixes are properly verified before release sign-off.</li><li>Plan and coordinate software releases across multiple teams and BUs, ensuring all entry and exit criteria are met.</li><li>Manage release schedules, release notes, and go/no-go decisions in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.</li><li>Maintain release dashboards and status reports for executive and stakeholder visibility.</li><li>Drive continuous improvement of release processes, tooling, and workflows.</li></ul>PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:<ul><li>Proven experience working across multiple BUs or product lines in a large, matrixed organization.</li><li>Strong background in bug triage processes, defect lifecycle management, and issue tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps).</li><li>Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and release planning frameworks.</li><li>Familiarity with software development lifecycles (SDLC) in hardware/software co-development environments is a plus.</li><li>Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Ability to manage ambiguity, drive decisions, and maintain momentum across large, distributed teams. </li></ul>ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:<ul><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.</li><li>Masters degree preferred.</li></ul> LOCATIONS:<ul><li>Open to US locations or Canada</li></ul>This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. #LI-EV1#LI-HYBRID Benefits offered are described: <a href="" target="_blank">AMD benefits at a glance</a>. 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 <a href="" target="_blank">here.</a> This posting is for an existing vacancy. THE ROLE: AMD is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Release Manager to join our Software Engineering organization. In this role, you will serve as a critical bridge between multiple Business Units and product owners, driving alignment on feature planning, release roadmaps, and issue resolution. You will also lead bug triage operations — ensuring incoming defects are accurately routed to the correct owners and driven to logical resolution within committed timelines. THE PERSON:This is a high-visibility role requiring strong cross-functional collaboration, technical acumen, and exceptional organizational skills. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Feature Planning & Roadmap Alignment</li><li>Partner with multiple business units and product owners to gather, consolidate, and align feature requests into a cohesive release roadmap.</li><li>Facilitate roadmap planning sessions, sprint reviews, and milestone reviews across engineering, product, and program management teams.</li><li>Track feature commitments, dependencies, and delivery timelines; proactively surface risks and propose mitigation strategies.</li><li>Maintain a single source of truth for release scope, feature status, and schedule across all stakeholder groups.</li><li>Communicate roadmap updates clearly and consistently to leadership and cross-functional teams.</li><li>Drive alignment on feature prioritization decisions when competing demands arise across BUs.</li><li>Own and manage the incoming bug triage process — evaluate, classify, and route defects to the appropriate engineering owners with speed and accuracy.</li><li>Lead regular triage meetings with engineering leads, QA, and product owners to review open issues and drive prioritization decisions.</li><li>Track all triaged issues through their full lifecycle — from initial report to root cause analysis, fix, validation, and closure.</li><li>Escalate high-severity and release-blocking issues to the appropriate stakeholders and ensure timely resolution.</li><li>Define and enforce triage SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and report on triage health metrics (open/closed rates, aging issues, escape rates).</li><li>Collaborate with QA and validation teams to ensure bug fixes are properly verified before release sign-off.</li><li>Plan and coordinate software releases across multiple teams and BUs, ensuring all entry and exit criteria are met.</li><li>Manage release schedules, release notes, and go/no-go decisions in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.</li><li>Maintain release dashboards and status reports for executive and stakeholder visibility.</li><li>Drive continuous improvement of release processes, tooling, and workflows.</li></ul>PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:<ul><li>Proven experience working across multiple BUs or product lines in a large, matrixed organization.</li><li>Strong background in bug triage processes, defect lifecycle management, and issue tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps).</li><li>Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and release planning frameworks.</li><li>Familiarity with software development lifecycles (SDLC) in hardware/software co-development environments is a plus.</li><li>Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Ability to manage ambiguity, drive decisions, and maintain momentum across large, distributed teams. </li></ul>ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:<ul><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.</li><li>Masters degree preferred.</li></ul> LOCATIONS:<ul><li>Open to US locations or Canada</li></ul>This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. #LI-EV1#LI-HYBRID Benefits offered are described: <a href="" target="_blank">AMD benefits at a glance</a>. 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 <a href="" target="_blank">here.</a> This posting is for an existing vacancy. Tags: No, USD $116,550.00/Yr., USD $166,500.00/Yr., US Careers (External)

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