Release Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 19, 2026. Qblox scores B on the Alion truth index.
Our Mission:
Qblox is a deep-tech scaleup headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, with a second office in Boston. We provide advanced quantum control stacks to research labs, quantum startups, and industry leaders. As we scale our highly complex, multi-disciplinary products, we need robust operational leadership to ensure seamless delivery.
Your Mission: Owning End-to-End Delivery We're hiring a (Senior) Release Manager, based in the PMO, to own end-to-end release coordination across FPGA, embedded software, software packages, and documentation.
This is a full-time, high-impact role with absolute authority over the release process and go/no-go decisions across every contributing team, regardless of their department. Seniority matters here: you need the credibility and executive presence to set and enforce rigorous release discipline with department heads on an equal footing.
Key Responsibilities
Release Authority & Planning
Release Decisions: Define release-readiness criteria, run gate reviews, and make the ultimate go/no-go call. While you have full authority over the release itself, department heads will maintain full authority over their people, technical decisions, and resourcing.
Calendar & Requirements: Own the release calendar, dictating what each component must deliver, in what state, and by when (leaving the internal methodology, tooling, and branching up to the teams).
Boundary Definition (RACI): Co-define exact authority boundaries with the CTO, PMO, and component leads to ensure seamless operation.
2. Cross-Functional Coordination & Visibility
Single Point of Contact: Act as the definitive point of coordination across component release managers and the integration lead.
Hardware Dependency Management: Track hardware revisions and availability as a critical release dependency, coordinating with the hardware team so releases are accurately planned against confirmed hardware readiness.
Risk Escalation & Tradeoffs: Surface cross-component risks early and work closely with Product on scope tradeoffs when a component is not ready as planned.
Live Visibility: Maintain an accurate, live view of release readiness across all components and chair cross-component readiness reviews.
3. Process Excellence & Coaching
Coaching & Standards: Set a high bar for what it means to be "release-ready" and develop component release managers to consistently meet that standard.
Metrics & Dashboards: Coordinate a global release dashboard pulling in readiness data from each component and from integration tests.
Documentation Focus: Treat documentation as a fully tracked release stream with its own readiness criteria, ensuring it is never treated as an afterthought.
Requirements
Required Experience
Complex Release Management: Strong track record managing releases across multiple interdependent teams, ideally spanning hardware, firmware, and software.
Process Leadership: Experience running strict release readiness and gate processes, going far beyond standard status reporting.
Mentorship: Experience coaching release practices in people who do not formally report to you.
Core Competencies
Technical Grounding: Solid technical understanding across embedded software, firmware, and hardware release cycles-enough to evaluate readiness claims and challenge component teams credibly, without needing to be hands-on in any single discipline.
Stakeholder Management: Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the proven ability to coordinate and influence without formal authority over most people.
Process Enforcement: A proven ability to set, manage, and enforce processes with teams outside your direct reporting line.
Adaptability: Highly comfortable driving clarity and moving forward from incomplete or evolving information.
Why Join Qblox?
Impact: Take on a central operational leadership role with direct authority over how our cutting-edge technology reaches the market.
Innovation: Work at the absolute cutting edge of technology, solving complex integration challenges in the quantum ecosystem.
Growth: Be part of a fast-moving, high-performance team with significant opportunities to define operational excellence as we scale globally.
A security screening and reference check may form part of the selection process for this position.
Acquisition in response to our vacancies by recruitment agencies is not appreciated.