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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # ASTRO SW Release Manager - **Company:** Motorola Solutions, Inc. - **Location:** Plantation, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $86,500.0 - $120,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JIRA, Project Management Software, Microsoft Project, Release Management, Software Engineering, Smartsheet, Information Technology - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7381a14ed4d7ab0b ## About the Role Do you have experience in Stakeholder management?, * Excellent written and verbal communications skills. * Strong interpersonal skills with a desire to collaborate with internal and external business/technical teams. * Ability to work independently as well as within a team. * Highly organized, structured, and process oriented; team building skills a plus. * Able to simplify a complex situation and provide updates accordingly. * Conflict resolution skills. * Demonstrated competency with the Jira platform. * Familiar with the D-Stream process. * Familiar with waterfall, scrum and agile development methodologies and their associated quality assurance methods. * Certified PMP preferred., * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar is preferred. * Minimum 5 years Project Management experience, preferably with experience in Software Development, Telecommunications, Radio Communications, or Aerospace/Defense preferred. ## Description * Work with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to support SW operations during feature development. * Facilitate Alpha / Beta preparation and execution for early product testing of SW releases. * Lead and facilitate quarterly PI planning activities. * Develop / refine process on any of the above to improve overall organization efficiency * Present status of key release activities to all levels of the organization (VP level and above). * Demonstrate best practices for developing schedules and understand the critical path. * Monitor the execution of release activities to ensure all dependencies are met and drive releases to completion. * Collaborate with global stakeholders (internal and external) to resolve conflicts and drive successful delivery of releases. * Manage expectations of project sponsor and stakeholder with timely communication/escalation of risks/issues, their impact, and appropriate mitigation/corrective actions. * Recommend corrective actions and implement changes. * Successfully identify and mitigate release risks. * Ensure all release related documentation is completed and archived in the appropriate storage location. * Demonstrated competency with a project management tool (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet). ## Related Videos - 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