Job Description
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (EE, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering)
- Technical program management experience in a related industry
- Professional experience with agile and scrum development methodologies
- Extensive experience with project delivery for large, cross functional projects
As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Ring, you will work with a focused team of product managers, engineers, and partner teams building and releasing new products and features. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge product that will be used every day.
We are looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with Business, Engineering, and other internal teams to solve business needs
- Be expected to be familiar with system development cycle and key performance metrics
- Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks, and change control
- Be expected to dive deep into the technical details of the program
About the team
We are an engineering team based in Cambridge, London, and Poland. We are responsible for the streaming, capture, processing, storage and playback of video, audio and other media from Ring’s millions of cameras, doorbells, and other smart security products. Our services handle live video streams, 24x7 lite snapshot videos and millions of pre-roll captures per day.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects
- Ability to define scope, and solve problems creatively and practically
- Strong track record of software project delivery for large, cross functional, projects
- Fluency with Atlassian SCM Suite (Confluence/JIRA)
- Experience in productization and shipping of software products (Services or Consumer Electronics)
- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Tenacious, does not give up
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