We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, Systems Quality Assurance Manager. The person chosen for this role will have the opportunity to manage and develop the careers for a talented group of QA engineers who qualify firmware for Ring Smart Lighting and Ring Alarm products. You will be collaborating with teammates, stakeholders and colleagues globally while you work on delivering the firmware for cutting edge products that are in the market today. You will be responsible for leading your team to uphold and ensure the highest level of quality throughout the entire evolution of our products and deliverables. Key job responsibilities - Leading a team focused on qualifying and delivering high quality firmware for existing and new Ring Smart Lighting and Alarm products - Mentoring, career development, hiring, and retaining excellent Quality Assurance Engineers - Designing, leading and delegating test efforts of varying scale and complexity, to qualify new features and functionality for product readiness while also evaluating existing products for regression - Work across teams to manage dependencies and align on engineering work and timelines to prepare firmware for release to the field and for device manufacturing - Understand component test strategies for product architecture and where necessary, make quality trade-off decisions at the feature level - Take ownership of problems (even when outside your own domain), propose solutions, and either drive their resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner - Collaborating with SDMs, TPMs, Developers, and other internal teams to proactively solve day-to-day challenges and exercise sound judgment - Removing barriers to execution for the team - Defining and executing on process improvements to allow the team to improve over time. - Contributing to, and driving best practices and engineering excellence A day in the life As the Quality Assurance Manager, you will be working in a fun and fast paced environment, with a team of very talented professionals. You will be responsible for career development, mentoring, and coaching of all QA engineering team members as they work to qualify features for new products while maintaining the high-quality bar for existing products. You will also work with your direct reports to remove roadblocks, and drive the team to utilize best practices and agile processes. You will work closely with your Technical Product Manager to prioritize and schedule engineering and evaluation work contributing to product readiness for the Ring Smart Lighting and Alarm product lines. About the team The team is distributed across the globe with product and development leadership based in the US. We are growing a team in the UK to focus on the development of our core Ring devices on our latest HW platforms. We integrate the devices into many products across Amazon’s family of products and technologies, like echo and Alexa enabled devices. The team is committed to developing security based devices and accessory products for our neighbors to integrate into their home. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR