As a Quality and Release Technical Program Manager (TPM), you’ll drive the coordination, planning and execution of software releases and quality initiatives across Canopy’s product ecosystem. This role ensures smooth delivery into production, clear communication with cross-functional teams, and rapid issue resolution during and after release. While reporting directly to the Quality Engineering Manager, you’ll partner closely with cross-team stakeholders to maintain product readiness, quality, and supportability. This hands-on, detail-oriented role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys creating structure, visibility, and predictability in quality and release workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end software release lifecycle across firmware, app, cloud, platform services, and external partner systems ensuring compatibility, reliability, high-quality, and well-communicated rollouts.
- Drive product quality and release reliability by defining and enforcing release criteria, gates, approval processes, and coordinating cross-team testing and readiness.
- Create, track, and analyze key KPIs including pre- and post-deployment metrics to monitor release performance, identify trends, and inform continuous improvement.
- Manage on-call and incident processes, including escalations, SLAs, and post-incident reviews, while coordinating with all Customer Care tiers for effective resolution.
- Monitor release health in real time and lead rapid triage and rollback/mitigation decisions when necessary.
- Maintain transparent communication on release status, risks, and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders.
- Continuously improve release, support, and incident processes through documentation, change logs, release notes, release process automation, and operational excellence initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
- 2–5 years of experience in Technical Program Management, Release Management, or a related technical operations/support coordination role.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with a bias for action and an ability to drive clarity during fast-moving release cycles and support incidents.
- Solid expertise with program and release management methodologies, including managing cross-functional readiness, risk, and quality gates.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent releases and operational workflows in a high-paced engineering environment.
- Familiarity with Agile development practices, Jira, CI/CD pipelines, and standard software deployment and support processes.
- Comfort with data-driven decision-making, including analyzing release metrics, incident trends, and support data to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with IoT, connected devices, or hardware-software systems.
- Strong understanding of software release pipelines, CI/CD systems, and modern deployment strategies.
- Experience interacting with external vendors and managing cross-company dependencies.
- Experience managing on-call programs, incident response processes, and running post-incident reviews.
- Hands-on familiarity with observability tools.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
- Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
- Employee discount programs.
- Retirement plan with a generous company match.
- Generous Paid Time Off, Sick, and Holidays
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
Compensation Range
Compensation may vary depending on skills and experience.
Base Salary: $76,905- $106,100
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: At Canopy, we're on a mission to end theft from vehicles and revolutionize vehicle security by building cutting-edge technology. We will achieve this by prioritizing individuals and staying attuned to the evolving needs of our people, users, and industry trends. We foster a workplace culture that embraces diversity and authenticity, enabling us to flourish as a team of exceptional individuals working towards a common purpose. We gain a deeper understanding of our users' experiences by continuously improving our skills and expanding our knowledge. A more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Canopy leads to greater innovation and success.
Equal Opportunity: Canopy does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
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What We Do
Canopy is a brand new company with a unique mission, solving for one of the biggest and growing challenges vehicle owners face – the threat of theft. A start-up with a compelling proposition, patented cutting edge AI technology, and a unique layer of expert monitoring from security specialists, we’re backed by Ford. Together, we’re determined to help vehicle owners stay one step ahead of potential threats by warning them before they happen. Our next step is to take our service to market and write the next big security technology success story. We’re all in. Are you?
