Senior Autonomy Technical Project Manager - Release
May Mobility · Ann Arbor, MI - Hybrid · United States · Hybrid
Pay: USD 152,000 – 170,000 a year
Posted Sep 3, 2026
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May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think. Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 500,000 autonomous rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.
Job Summary
The Senior Autonomy Technical Project Manager is responsible for driving the coordination and execution of software releases across cross-functional engineering, validation, safety, DevOps, and deployment teams, and for leading post-release incident response. This role serves as the central point of accountability for release readiness — ensuring that deliverables stay aligned on scope, timing, and readiness — and for production issues, ensuring they are driven to containment and resolution with clear ownership and follow-through, and translated into durable improvements in the release process. The role focuses primarily on non-core autonomy deliverables and cross-functional coordination, with direct ownership of post-release incident tracking through containment and resolution.
Essential Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end release coordination and autonomy engineering release management, tracking deliverables across cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with the release plan, timeline, and quality bar. Build the tools and processes needed to identify risks and coordinate on-time, high-quality product delivery, and provide regular status updates on release, project, and program progress and risks.
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among autonomy, engineering, test and validation, safety, DevOps, product, customer operations, finance, and strategy stakeholders, maintaining clear alignment on scope, dependencies, timing, and release readiness. Consolidate input from autonomy, engineering, safety, legal, and business teams to produce and distribute project work plans, Requests for Procurement, Statements of Work, Program Plans, and Gantt charts, leading the team with ownership of duties along with follow-up and corrections as needed.
Drive production incident management, ensuring the appropriate teams are engaged, impact is assessed and clearly communicated, and remediation actions are tracked through to resolution. Coordinate and…