The Build and Release Engineering Project Manager collaborates with Engineering, QA, Build, Integration, and App Store teams to establish and oversee build and release procedures for Apple applications. Responsibilities include defining and enforcing scalable policies and procedures for successful builds and releases, managing build configuration requirements throughout the software development lifecycle, mitigating risks in the release phase, tracking software changes from pull requests to successful builds, ensuring proper testing and sign-off with QA, resolving build and release issues with cross-functional teams, communicating timelines and resolutions to app teams, and providing regular reports on submissions and releases, and effectively communicating program status to leadership and cross-functional teams.